Senior Category Buyer

3 weeks ago


England, United Kingdom DSJ Global Full time

Formal prerequisites for the position (e.g. training, experience, education etc.)

  • BA-BS or relevant experience
  • Direct material purchasing experience. Preferably including forging and turning.
  • Strong negotiation, project management, and problem solving skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to travel to suppliers regularly

Tasks (Description of main tasks)

  • Provide commodity leadership
  • Close cooperation within the region as well as with the headquarters in Germany
  • Negotiation and implementation of yearly cost savings
  • Development and implementation of commodity strategy
  • Cost recovery of quality and logistics issues
  • First level of escalation
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