Strategic Sourcing Analyst developing strategies for Advocate Health’s supply chain. Managing sourcing processes, supplier relationships, and cost optimization initiatives within a hybrid work environment.
About the role
- Purchasing Manager ensuring food and non-food availability while optimizing costs for a fast-growing burger franchise company. Managing suppliers and enhancing procurement processes in a vibrant office in Munich.
Responsibilities
- Ensure availability: food / non-food – depending on focus
- Identify cost-saving opportunities: structured, data-driven and traceable tenders, price-performance and contract negotiations, decision papers for the department head and COO, always cleanly and transparently documented
- Supplier management: selection, development, annual reviews, terms, performance evaluation
- Process and transparency culture: build and further develop simple, logical and solution-oriented procurement processes
- Cross-functional coordination: align with internal stakeholders (including within the department with Product and Quality Management and cross-departmentally with Marketing, Franchise Partner Support and Training)
- Risk management and market analysis: availability, alternatives, price and market developments
- Reporting: KPIs, status updates, decisions — clearly and comprehensibly prepared
Requirements
- Commercial training and/or degree in business administration (or related field)
- Several years of purchasing experience, ideally in food, gastronomy, retail or FMCG environments
- Strong capabilities in structure, communication and transparency: you explain decisions concisely and clearly, document reliably and work according to processes
- Confident negotiator with a good sense for partnerships — fair, clear and goal-oriented
- Analytical thinking, numerical affinity and enjoyment of standardized processes (with the ability to react flexibly to urgent requests with a clear head)
- Fluent German and good English (meetings, emails, negotiations)
- Proficient in MS Office (especially Excel)
Benefits
- Daily lunch subsidy
- Possibility to work partly from home
- Regular team events
- Company fitness benefits: subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership and corporate rates for body+soul, Gold's Gym or FitX
- Corporate Benefits shopping discounts
- Subsidized company bike leasing and occupational pension plan
- Workation within the EU for up to four weeks
- Free cold and hot drinks of all kinds — after all, first and foremost we are hosts
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