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A Snapshot of Your Day

As a buyer you efficiently executing operational purchasing processes. Your purchase goods and materials to ensure that the operational needs are met (considering price, quality, on-time delivery) as well as continuity of supply. Processes incoming customer requests (workflow transactions, purchase requisitions, email requests, etc.) ensuring agreed cycle time and quality standards while maintaining high customer/user satisfaction.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Negotiates prices and payment terms with classic negotiations or advanced negotiation concepts (E-Bidding, E-Auction etc.)
• Purchase order creation and management, including tracking/expediting to ensure a cost‑efficient supply of materials in accordance with demand and a delivery on time in the right quality including the escalation of risks to relevant stakeholders,
• Monitors supplier delivery and quality performance and develops supplier relationship
• Actively seeks process optimization and improvement opportunities in relevant areas (e.g. MoQ optimization, bundling of purchase orders, etc.)
• Demonstrates strong customer focus by handling requests in a timely manner with high quality standards and communicates efficiently and professionally with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintains and updates supplier master data to ensure that the database accurate and up-to-date

What You Bring

• University degree or apprenticeship degree in a commercial or technical field and professional work experience in procurement
• Strong motivation, communication skills, capability to cooperate with different cultures in a global business and proven experience to work in a global team
• Willingness to learn procurement skillset, e.g. contract management, negotiation methods and open for digital work processes and strong IT‑skills (MS Office, SAP, AI)
• Ability to break down issues into workable components and skilled in presenting facts after preparation and ability to describe simple processes related to daily work
• Advanced English and excellent German language skills

About the Team

In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-in class services and solutions in the areas of IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer‑financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self‑determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.