Local Buyer (m/f/d)

KNDS Germany develops, manufactures and maintains a wide-spread product portfolio as a system house. These include combat tanks, highly protected wheel vehicles, artillery systems, military bridges, customer service and training solutions. As part of the KNDS Group, we stand for the start of the consolidation of the industry for military land systems in Europe. We offer highly interesting, complex and challenging activities in a collegial environment. Our employees appreciate this, whether in development, production or administration. We successfully combine innovative capability with tradition and many years of experience.

Your main tasks include the support of the Lead Buyer in its strategic tasks as well as the implementation of the agreed goals, especially taking into account the security of supply and product quality In addition, check requirements, initiate and manage alerts and create enquiries and orders by default You carry out national and international procurement market analyses, support the establishment of strategic supplier relations and take over the preparation, management and reprocessing of negotiations with suppliers, supported by the supervisor if necessary In addition to voting with the project purchase and the cross-functional teams, the independent implementation of continuous demand analyses and the development of strategic goals in coordination with your expert supervisors is one of your tasks You create quotations and check technical aspects In addition, you identify cost-cutting potentials as well as optimization needs and derive appropriate measures and solutions (e.g. price and value analyses) The holistic support and monitoring of eProcurement topics (catalogs, processes, etc.) completes the independent initiation of make-or-buy decisions and the preparation and support of complex contractual negotiations and their documentation

Your task profile What you bring You have a successfully completed technical, business or legal study with multi-year professional experience or completed vocational training with specialist additional qualification and many years of relevant experience in purchasing You have a very pronounced technical affinity and profound technical product knowledge as well as very good knowledge of contract law and a pronounced legal thinking We require very good SAP and Microsoft Office knowledge as well as reliable English knowledge for communication with internal and external partners, further foreign languages are advantageous You work structured, independent and proactively and are characterized by their pronounced communication and team skills and empathy A self-confident and safe occurrence, a level of negotiation and enforcement, as well as resilience and resilience complete your profile in addition to a high readiness to travel

Secure employer Attractive payment by IG metal tariff contract Kita grant Christmas and holiday money Development 30 days off Staff parking Bike leasing Fitness & Health Services Occupational pension Canteen Flexible sliding time controls Grant for the Deutschlandticket Company doctor Corporate Benefits