Local Buyer (m/w/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. They support Lead Buyer's strategic tasks They are responsible for the implementation of the agreed objectives, specifically taking into account the security of supply and product quality Your main tasks include testing requirements and initiation and management of alerts You create inquiries and orders Another focus is the implementation of national procurement market research They support the establishment of strategic supplier relations, inter alia by searching, selecting and, where appropriate, qualifying suitable suppliers with the help of the supervisor You are responsible for the preparation, independent conduct and preparation of negotiations with suppliers and examination of the contents You take over the coordination with the project purchase and the cross-functional teams  You create needs analyses and offer matrices They identify cost reduction potentials and implement them

They bring a successfully completed technical, business or legal studies, completed vocational training to the specialist businessman for purchasing and logistics, or comparable with They ideally have first professional experience in purchasing and have good knowledge of contract law and a legal way of thinking They bring very good SAP and Microsoft Office knowledge as well as fluent English skills, another foreign language is advantageous They also bring a high readiness to travel and a safe occurrence with A high degree of negotiation and enforcement as well as a pronounced communication strength and team capacity complete your profile