Salamander Industrie-Produkte GmbH | Germany | 86xxx Türkheim | Permanent position | Full time | Published since: 13.08.2026 on stepstone.de
Head of Purchasing / Einkaufsleiter (m/f/d)
At Salamander you will find a sensory workplace with sustainable and innovative products, a motivated team, flat structures and attractive development opportunities in a stable family business with over 100 years of experience – and in a scenic environment in Unterallgäu. As an internationally operating, owner-managed group with about 350 million. We are one of the leading European quality system providers for PVC window profile systems. At our headquarters in Türkheim as well as our global plants, we rely on high-efficiency, material-intensive value creation, in-house recycling and now on you as a driver of our AI-based transformation in purchasing. Do you purchase not as a downstream service function, but as a real co-author of the corporate strategy? Do you focus on raising the source-to-pay process to the next level by consistently using AI? Then you will shape the future of the window world with us!
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
AI pioneering work in the S2P process: orientation & implementation of the holistic AI transformation of the group acquisition. Strategic product group purchase: You are responsible for global procurement along three core clusters of direct, cost-leading materials, technology-driven investments to auxiliary and operating materials. Focus on electricity procurement: Control a need of more than 5 to 30 GWh You provide our structured energy supply through hybrid models, tranches management, spot market shares and sustainable green PPAs. Sourcing- & Risk Management: You strengthen our multi-source architecture for delivery protection, build reliable, low-tech supplier partnerships and use AI tools for continuous risk monitoring. Modern shopping methods: You establish theoretically well-founded auction designs and DISC-based negotiation methods and ensure operational compliance with global regulations. Modern leadership: You run and develop a multi-site, 15-person shopping team that is already organised according to SBO principles.
Professional experience: At least 10 years of well-founded shopping experience in the plastics processing, chemical or process-oriented industry, of which at least 5 years in a comparable management function. AI & tool competence: Detectable successes in the introduction and use of AI solutions in purchasing as well as safe handling of modern S2P suites. Expertise: Deep understanding of the power supply in the energy-intensive industry and the international tool and investment purchase. Personality: Entrepreneurial thinking leaders with real hands-on mentality for our owner culture. You are powerful, data-driven and have a healthy, critical curiosity about AI technologies. Education & languages: Complete technical or economic studies. German and English, as well as a readiness to travel from about 30 to 40 percent, bring you with us.
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Location
 | Salamander Industrie-Produkte GmbH | |
| Türkheim | ||
| Germany |
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