EU remote
Project Buyer (f/m/div.)
About this role
Your contribution to something big: Team Leadership and People Development • Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization. • Translate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables. • Plan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations.
• Conduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations. • Promote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions. • Ensure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities. Operational Project Purchasing and NPI • Act as Project Buyer for selected electronics development projects and represent commercial purchasing interests in the project team.
• Drive supplier involvement from early design phases through sourcing decision, qualification, industrialization, and series launch. • Own project purchasing milestones, supplier deliverables, cost targets, and commercial readiness in line with project timing. • Coordinate RFQs, quotations, sourcing recommendations, negotiation packages, and award decisions with relevant stakeholders. • Identify and mitigate project risks related to capacity, lead time, tooling, lifecycle, localization, and supply continuity.
• Ensure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of deviations affecting cost, quality, delivery, or launch readiness. Category, Supplier and Commercial Management • Guide purchasing activities for the assigned component scope, including passive and active electronic components and distribution channels. • Align supplier and category strategies across global and regional responsibilities, including tandem cooperation with APAC counterparts.
• Lead or support price, contract, capacity, payment-term, and claim negotiations in line with global targets. • Drive cost transparency through benchmarking, cost breakdowns, design-to-cost, and value-engineering measures. • Monitor supplier performance and coordinate corrective actions or escalations with quality, logistics, engineering, and plants. • Support dual sourcing, localization, resilience, and lifecycle strategies for critical electronic components.