Senior Strategic Buyer

Join Jungheinrich in a working environment where you can make a big difference! With your knowledge and drive, as a team player you will make an important contribution to ensure that we as a company continue to be among the global leaders in our industry. Working side by side with colleagues who enjoy bold ideas and in a family environment that offers you every opportunity to reconcile your professional and private goals.

Responsibilities:

• Managing, developing, and expanding a cross-brand product portfolio, including procurement, product development, and supplier management
• Optimizing purchasing processes, supplier conditions, product availability, market pricing, and webshop presentation in close collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Analyzing market and competitor trends and implementing sales support measures and product-related training sessions
• Building product portfolios, developing supplier relationships, and managing procurement processes in a structured way.
• Supporting product development, including sample evaluations, certifications, and maintaining technical documentation, catalogs, and safety materials
• Occasional travel for supplier visits and trade fairs, both domestically and internationally

Qualifications:

• Completed commercial training (e.g., industrial clerk) or a university degree, combined with relevant professional experience in a similar role
• Ideally, experience in technical purchasing of alternative spare parts in the aftermarket sector (e.g., forklifts, construction equipment, agricultural machinery, automotive/commercial vehicles, or similar industries)
• Strong communication skills, technical understanding, and analytical capabilities
• Willingness to travel
• Strong commercial mindset and analytical thinking
• Pragmatic approach to driving topics forward
• Fluent German and English skills, both written and spoken

Jungheinrich was founded in 1953 in Hamburg by Dr. Friedrich Jungheinrich as a family business. Today, we are one of the world's leading intralogistics companies with a unique product portfolio: from conventional industrial trucks to fully automated solutions intralogistics companies. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Jungheinrich is represented by its own direct sales companies in 41 countries and by partner companies in around 80 other countries around the world, and employs more than 19,000 people internationally.

We look forward to receiving your online application.

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At Jungheinrich, we value inclusion and diversity and practice equity to create equal opportunities for all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, ethnic background, color, religious affiliation, union affiliation, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, nationality, genetics and health or disability.