About the role

  • 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
  • Supplier management: selection, development, annual reviews, terms and conditions, performance evaluation
  • 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

Job title

Purchasing Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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