Purchasing Manager ensuring availability and managing suppliers at a top catering company in Germany. Involves cost-saving strategies and collaboration with internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Ensure availability: food / non-food — depending on focus
Identify cost-saving potential: tenders (structured, data-driven, transparent), price-performance and contract negotiations, preparation of decision papers for department management and the COO, always documented clearly and traceably
Process and transparency culture: establish and further develop simple, logical and solution-oriented procurement processes
Interface work: coordinate with internal stakeholders (e.g., within the department with product and quality management, and cross-functionally with marketing, franchise partner support and the training department)
Risk management and market analyses: availability, alternatives, price and market developments
Reporting: KPIs, status updates and decisions — prepared clearly and understandably
Requirements
Commercial training and/or a degree in business administration
Several years of purchasing/procurement experience, ideally in the food, gastronomy, retail or FMCG environment
Strong skills in structure, communication and transparency: you explain decisions briefly 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 literacy and enjoyment of standardized procedures (with the ability to respond flexibly and calmly to urgent requests)
Very good German and good English skills (meetings, emails, negotiations)
Proficient in MS Office (especially Excel)
Benefits
Daily lunch subsidy
Option to work partially from home
Regular team events
Corporate fitness: subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership and company 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 hot and cold beverages of all kinds — after all, above all we are hosts
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