Your challenges:
- Manage assigned material categories in alignment with other material categories and with overarching procurement strategy (analyze and classify spend and suppliers)
- Supplier Management in alignment with the material category strategy regarding quality, cost, R&D and logistics
- Identify and implement optimization levers and report progress
- Coordinate, implement and evaluate tender
- Qualify, develop and consolidate suppliers
- Continuously review the innovation portfolio of strategic suppliers
- Conduct yearly business reviews and yearly contract management
- Lead supplier negotiations, evaluations and audits
Your expertise:
- Degree in business / business engineering / mechanical engineering / chemistry / physics or similar
- Profound experience in international procurement / supply chain management or development
- Profound knowledge in procurement and logistics
- Profound experience in category management in the context of a high tech manufacturing corporation
- Strong technical understanding, ideally in electronics, polymers or mechanical processing
- Work experience in project management, ideally in agile development
- Analytical skills paired with a structured working method
- Strong communication skills and proficient appearance
- Willingness to travel to internal and external stakeholders paired with intercultural competencies
- Ability to clearly communicate complex matters to internal and external top management
- Good knowledge of MS Office and SAP
- Business fluent in English
- Global procurement experience is an advantage
What We Do
Eppendorf is a leading life science company that develops and sells instruments, consumables, and services for liquid-, sample-, and cell handling in laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers, and cell manipulation systems. Consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microtiter plates, and disposable bioreactors complement the range of highest-quality premium products.
Eppendorf products are most broadly used in academic and commercial research laboratories, e.g., in companies from the pharmaceutical and biotechnological as well as the chemical and food industries. They are also aimed at clinical and environmental analysis laboratories, forensics, and industrial laboratories performing process analysis, production, and quality assurance.
Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1945 and has about 5000 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 33 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors.
Imprint: www.eppendorf.com/imprint
