Strategic Buyer

As a strategic buyer at Aesculap AG in Tuttlingen, you ensure a reliable supply of high-quality raw materials for the Aesculap division. Your forward-looking purchasing strategies support quality and cost efficiency. This supply chain management role offers hybrid working.

• Manage purchasing categories and suppliers strategically for stainless steels and other metal raw materials, particularly cobalt-chromium, titanium and aluminium, as well as plastics
• Develop and implement strategies for your purchasing categories, identifying and achieving improvements in costs, quality and supply
• Continuously monitor and analyse raw material markets, exchange prices for key LME metals and relevant price indices
• Prepare and conduct contract and price negotiations with national and international suppliers, and conclude and manage the relevant contracts
• Analyse and manage purchasing, supplier, capacity and supply risks, and develop suitable measures to reduce them
• Work with Supplier Quality Management to select, qualify, develop and audit suppliers domestically and internationally
• Work closely with materials development, Supplier Quality Management, engineering and operational purchasing on new developments and questions of quality, cost and availability

• A completed bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or a comparable qualification
• A good understanding of raw material markets and price trends, with a feel for the right purchasing times and how to secure material supplies
• Close attention to global developments, the ability to assess their effects on purchasing, and the ability to find suitable suppliers and build collaborative relationships
• Strategic thinking, forward planning and decisions aligned with long-term purchasing goals
• Very good German and English skills for working with internal and external contacts
• Negotiating skills and assertiveness, with the ability to remain calm and resilient in demanding situations and understand the person you are dealing with