A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Junior Buyer you will be responsible of the supply of materials based on customer requirements at the lowest price whilst ensuring quality & on-time delivery. You will support the handling, controlling, and monitoring of Procurement activities within your assigned desks/commodities.

You will be a member of the Services Procurement organization that is responsible for developing procurement strategies for direct materials that will ensure the optimization of Siemens Energy's driven position. As you will be working and communicating with German-speaking colleagues and predominantly German-speaking suppliers in the future, the German language is a very important characteristic for us.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Contribute to the implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance (e.g. compliant Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, Procurement guidelines, IT systems, etc.
• Generate, document, and implement savings, (e.g. CNI; plan, monitor, and report on relevant KPI to contribute to the success of the business) and make results transparent.
• Process and follow up on order requisitions from main interfaces, end to end process.
• Support Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, on-boarding, development, etc.).
• Sensitize cross-functional partners for Procurement related practices, processes, and metrics.
• Conduct e-Sourcing activities.
• Ensure a close collaboration with Internal Customers (requisitioners) to ensure Customer care and early involvement.

What You Bring

• Capability to negotiate and to operate in different cultures preferred.
• Ability to facilitate and foster a cooperative approach beyond your own organizational unit & function.
• Knowledge of basic legal terms and ability to recognize risk and advantages from contracts.
• Basic knowledge of industry standards & norms that apply to our business & to assigned desks/commodities.
• Strategic thinking and analytical skills
• Recognition of deficits and violations among Suppliers and is confident to bring up these to the cross-functional partners.
• Knowledge of the applicable internal processes, rules, guidelines with reference to supplier quality topics.
• Ability to qualify and evaluate suppliers, classifications, development measures, create contract entries, create RFX and e-Auctions.
• Experienced user in SAP systems with focus on all procurement relevant modules.
• Good English language skills, German language skills desirable

About the Team

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 94,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we're also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

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.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

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.

Rewards/Benefits

• Meal tickets
• Hybrid work mode
• Private Pension plan
• Medical premium subscription
• Additional days off based on tenure
• Bookster
• Wellbeing activities
• plenty of learning opportunities, trainings, workshops... & more!

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