KWD Automotive AG & Co. KG | Germany | 01xxx, 38xxx Wolfsburg, Radeberg | Permanent position | Full time / Home office | Published since: 20.08.2026 on stepstone.de
Lead Buyer Purchased and Formed Parts / Lead Buyer Coordinator (m/f/d)
As a medium-sized group of companies, we combine tradition with innovation. For over 160 years, we have been a recognized and certified partner of the automotive industry for quality, reliability and future-oriented action. From a small workshop in Dresden we have developed into a premium supplier for body parts and assemblies that grows nationally and internationally. Our success is based on a strong team spirit: Under the guidance set “JOINING PARTS AND PEOPLE / We We We We We Climb together” we focus on close cooperation between employees, customers and partners. This is the basis for the high quality of our products and our innovative strength. We actively shape changes and create prospects for the future. We value sustainable development and the perfect connection between technology and human beings. Together with talented professionals, we are looking forward to accepting new challenges and growing as a strong team. You want to shape global shopping strategies, as a central coordinator, hold the threads of our lead-buying team together and are willing to be present where the decisions fall? Keep reading! We are not looking for a desk strategist, but a communication-strong organizational talent for our team in the automotive sector. In this challenging double roll, you control the global volume for buying and forming parts. At the same time, you take over the superordinate, cross-site coordination of our Lead Buyer. Without disciplinary leadership, with a high level of professional design and the necessary flexibility on site, you moderate processes, use synergies and synchronize our global procurement strategies. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
Global strategy for forming parts: You develop and implement forward-looking shopping strategies for the material group for buying and forming parts worldwide. Markets & treaties dominate: You scan the global supplier market, conduct complex top-level negotiations and complete legal framework agreements . Lead Buyer coordination in the matrix: You are the central hub. You coordinate the team of Lead Buyer professionally, harmonize the individual material group strategies and advance standardizations. Interface moderation on site: You act as a bridge builder between locations, works and central functions. To perfectly interlink the cooperation, you are regularly present at our locations and partners.
Experience: You bring at least 5 years of well-founded professional experience in strategic purchasing. Industry knowledge: Automotive experience is important to us and brings you forward quickly – but it is not an exclusion criterion if your performance in strategic purchasing otherwise convinces. Mobility: You bring a corresponding readiness to travel in order to achieve the best possible and personal success of the cross-site coordination and supplier discussions. Matrix confession: You know how to act successfully in a matrix organization. You convince by arguments, expertise and moderation skills – not by hierarchy. Material group know-how: You have a deep technical understanding of the purchase parts and the manufacturing technologies of forming parts (e.g. stamping, bending, pressing or forging parts). Communication & Tools: German and English You can handle negotiate-proof, ERP systems and MS Office blind.
Design space instead of micromanagement: A key position with high self-responsibility and great influence on our global purchasing processes. Modern work culture: project-oriented and collaborative work at eye level in a dynamic environment. Flexibility & equipment: Modern work with flexible times, home office options (in Wolfsburg or Radeberg) as well as optimal equipment for your operations on the go. Culture: Short paths, clear announcements and a team that wants to win together. Stability to which you can build: permanent employment contract, attractive remuneration and occupational retirement Recreation & Balance: 30 days vacation, possibility to use several gyms across the regional and at the same time, bike leasing and other benefits
Location
 | KWD Automotive AG & Co. KG | |
| 38442 Wolfsburg, Radeberg | ||
| Germany |
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