Your role in our team:

• Responsible purchaser for various sub-clusters within the commodity weldments along the entire product lifecycle (development, serial production, after-sales)
• Managing all purchasing activities in alignment with the global weldments’ strategy as well as in close cooperation with other internal stakeholders
• Developing existing suppliers (QCT: quality, cost, time) in accordance with goals related to quality, logistics, and product cost optimization
• Professional preparation and independent conduct of purchasing negotiations up to contract conclusion, including framework supply agreements
• Participation in development projects and cost optimization workshops
• Monitoring and analysis of the market environment
• Contribution to the definition of the weldments’ commodity strategy

Your profile:

• Completed studies in industrial engineering, business administration with additional technical knowledge, or a related field
• Several years of professional experience in strategic purchasing, ideally within welding technologies
• Good knowledge of production processes
• Comprehensive experience in conducting negotiations
• Strong entrepreneurial and analytical thinking skills as well as an independent, flexible, and efficient way of working
• Confident and professional appearance at both internal and external management levels.
• Experience working in an interdisciplinary and intercultural environment
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Confident use of MS Office and SAP
• Fluent in business English and native-level German (C2) as well as willingness to travel

Your benefits:

• Personal and professional development opportunities within a highly international working environment and an intercultural, open-minded team full of drive and initiative, offering considerable scope for creativity and change
• CLAAS is a family-owned company through and through – personal contact is important to us, and we promote an open, performance- and employee-oriented leadership culture
• Flexible working time and flextime models as well as mobile office to a defined extent