Strategic Buyer - Energy System & Grid Infrastructure (m/f/d)

We're more than an energy supplier! Sustainable, close to the customer and innovative. For over 100 years we have been doing our best and guarantee a safe and environmentally sound energy supply. We invest regionally and internationally in forward-looking supply concepts from combined heat, wind power or photovoltaics, in innovative technologies and infrastructure solutions such as hydrogen, electromobility and IoT. As a leading provider in the Palatinate and the Saarpfalz Circle, we actively participate in the energy transition. We can't do all this alone: The Pfalzwerke Group includes specialized daughters with around 1,300 employees. For those who keep an overview. The ES division (purchasing and services) consists of the three departments of Internal Services, Strategic Purchasing – Warehouse & Logistics and Facility Management. He understands himself as a competent partner of the departments and makes a significant contribution to the success of the company. As a purchaser*in Strategic Purchasing (SE), it is your responsibility to develop product groups and thereby supplier strategies. Easy to raise long-term optimization potentials in the dimensions price, quality and availability. More precisely, this means negotiating framework agreements, concentrating on cross-departmental needs and thus deriving forecasts, standardizing specifications, market observations and the like. Your strategic decisions have a direct impact on the success of the Pfalzwerke.

Responsibility for Group-wide strategic purchasing with a focus on network infrastructure, control and components including Building responsibility Planning and implementation of demanding procurement projects focusing on the independent preparation, development and implementation of complex tenders, including price and contract negotiations Advising the departments and stakeholders in relation to a demand-optimal sourcing and negotiation strategy Conception, design, organisation and optimization of product group and supplier management taking into account the defined purchasing strategy and the set objectives in quality, service and price with the help of procurement market research and market observations Identification of annual savings potentials and contract optimizations taking into account availability and delivery capacities Internal and external communication with the departments, suppliers and related companies

Successfully completed studies with a focus on economic engineering or comparable discipline Multiannual experience in strategic purchasing as well as excellent knowledge in purchasing processes and proven market knowledge Basic understanding of energy systems Knowledge of the sector regulation (SektVO) or the willingness to acquire it quickly Reliable basic legal knowledge regarding framework, works and service contracts Knowledge of SAP-MM and preferably automated P2P knowledge Very good knowledge of German and English in word and writing

Mobile work Because your work-life balance is at our heart. If it allows your activity, we support mobile work as a supplement to the workplace on site. Flexible working time models Because your time is important to us. Flexible division of working time and place of work possible (depending on function). Education and development Because you can really get through with us on a career basis. We offer development talks and individual training. Compatibility Occupation and Family Because we want you to be careful in serious cases, we support you with Benefitatwork, Nursing and GeBeGe. Create energy together Because it counts together. Interdisciplinary team and working groups, employee events, company sports groups. Special payments Because you deserve more. Like participation in success, performance premiums, asset-effective services, Christmas and holiday money (depending on function). Mobility Because we want to move you forward. Jobticket, Jobrad, Servicecar claim (fully electric) or BahnCard 100 (depending on function). Team lunch Because it just tastes better together. Own canteens with subsidised meals from predominantly regional products. Occupational pension Because you're supposed to be good. We offer you a employee-funded occupational pension scheme. With design Because your opinion is important to us, you can actively contribute your ideas – in co-design groups, in the AI pioneers or with the espresso with the Executive Board – and thus shape the future of energy supply. Health Because health is the basis for everything. We offer you access to our PowerFitHealth Platform and a wide range of consulting services. Insurance Because security is a good feeling. That's why we're at your side – from group accident insurance to supplementary sickness insurance. .