Purchasing Specialist (f/m/x)

Are you looking for more than just a job, for something truly meaningful and rewarding? Then Sysmex Europe SE is the place for you. As the regional headquarters for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, our company is dedicated to providing essential products that help people worldwide on their healthcare journey.

Purchasing Specialist (f/m/x)

Responsibilities

What if you could play a key role in ensuring Sysmex's operational excellence by securing the right materials at the right time? As a Purchasing Specialist (f/m/x), you manage operational procurement activities and act as a key interface between suppliers, supply planning, and internal stakeholders across EMEA. You ensure reliable product availability while continuously improving processes and supplier performance. Your key responsibilities include:

• Managing the end-to-end operational procurement process, including creation, execution, and monitoring of purchase orders
• Collaborating closely with supply planning and inventory management to ensure optimal inventory levels and timely replenishment
• Monitoring supplier timelines and performance to ensure on-time and on-quality delivery across EMEA
• Building and maintaining strong, partnership-based relationships with suppliers, including regular meetings and reviews
• Managing backorders and proactively working with suppliers to improve delivery reliability
• Acting as a central interface between strategic procurement, distribution, product management, warehouse teams, forwarding agents, and supply planning
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives and supporting cross-functional SCM projects
• Ensuring compliance with internal policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements

Qualifications

You will thrive in this role if you bring a strong operational mindset, a collaborative approach, and the motivation to continuously improve procurement processes in an international environment. Ideally, you bring the following qualifications and strengths:

• Successfully completed commercial education (e.g. as a foreign trade or forwarding agent) or a bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a comparable qualification
• Relevant professional experience in Supply Chain Management or operational Purchasing
• Solid hands-on experience with SAP; SAP S/4HANA knowledge is a plus
• Strong MS Office skills, especially advanced Excel and reporting capabilities; experience with Power BI and other dashboards is an advantage
• A structured, proactive, and solution-oriented way of working combined with strong communication skills
• Confidence in collaborating with internal stakeholders and external suppliers in a dynamic, international environment
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken; German language skills are preferred

Benefits

We are an aspiring corporate group where respect and trust form the basis for cooperation and communication within Sysmex.

• Culture & cooperation: An appreciative work environment, open corporate culture, flat hierarchies and an inclusive and caring atmosphere. Working in an innovative and international environment with a broad learning and development landscape in our EMEA Campus, after-work events for internal networking
• Work-life balance: Flexible working through flextime and a hybrid working model (60% mobile working, 40% on-site), 30 days annual leave
• Additional benefits: Attractive compensation package including Christmas and vacation pay, childcare allowance, capital-forming benefits, subsidy for company pension scheme, corporate benefits, relocation assistance, subsidised lunch in our canteen
• Health & wellbeing: In-house gym, various sports courses, massages, company medical and psychological care, workplace glasses, general health management
• Mobility subsidy: for the public transport “Deutschlandticket”, free parking, bike leasing via JobRad
• Social Responsibility: Various opportunities to get involved in different sustainability and charity initiatives, climate friendly and respectful use of resources

Important note

Please be advised that a valid work permit for Germany is required for non-EU citizens. Unfortunately, applications without a valid work permit and sufficient German language skills may not be considered.