Sourcing Project Manager (m/w/x)

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application silence of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes. Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application silence of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes. Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips - work where the morning is created.

About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the heart of any electronically controlled system, You are no longer to think away from our everyday life – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

For the supply chain management in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, we are looking for a ''Sourcing Project Manager (m/w/x)' at the Jena, Roßdorf or Oberkochen site at the next possible time:

Take over responsibility as a project manager of all procurement-relevant activities for a procurement object along the product development process from ORR (Operational Readiness Review) to the successful SAT (Site Acceptance Test) or FOR (Final Operational Readiness)

Preparation, planning, control and post-control of procurement projects

close cooperation with the relevant interfaces such as development, quality, production, logistics, legal to implement the sourcing strategy

determining the strategic approach and the sourcing concept for a procurement project

Identification, evaluation and selection of suitable suppliers in coordination with the appropriate interfaces

Designing a successful cooperation between internal stakeholders, stakeholders and suppliers

a successfully completed study in the fields of economics or engineering or a commercial-technical training with adequate additional training

at least 6 years of professional experience in project management of complex technology projects in cooperation with internal and external cross-functional teams

well-founded, proven experience in supply chain management or management of external partners, ideally in purchasing development-intensive components, assemblies, modules or installations

well-founded experiences in the fields of optimization of complex value flows and production control as well as development, production and procurement of special machines, preferably in the context of semiconductor production or aerospace

at least project management level C or comparable

well-founded knowledge of supplier evaluation and selection as well as proven negotiation experience

Confidence with key figures as well as very good IT skills, especially in MS Office and SAP

high intercultural competence an analytical mindset and a structured approach

knowledge of German and English in word and writing

readiness for missions (national and international)

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