Country Procurement Lead Schweiz — Hügli Nährmittel AG

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Responsibility, design and cooperation. 🚀 As Procurement Country Lead Switzerland, you take on the disciplinary responsibility for the local purchasing team and develop it further professionally and personally. You combine operational excellence with strategic supplier management and work closely with production, supply chain, finance and management and are part of the local site management. Tasks:

• You are responsible for defined product groups in direct material (especially raw materials) and remain active in operational and strategic purchasing alongside your leadership role
• You organize and manage local and group-wide tenders, negotiate contracts and conclude framework agreements in close coordination with the Group’s Category Cluster Leads
• You ensure high data quality and transparency in purchasing (SAP/MM)
• You control local purchasing based on clear KPIs (e.g. savings, contract coverage, supplier performance, data quality) and derive concrete improvement measures from this
• You report directly to the Head of Procurement and actively participate in group-wide reviews, projects and initiatives
• You identify optimization and efficiency potentials and implement them together with your team and relevant interfaces
• Depending on the project, you take an active role in local and international initiatives (e.g. process or system projects) Requirements:
• You bring a completed degree (e.g. business administration, industrial engineering, agricultural sciences) or commercial education with relevant professional experience in purchasing
• You have several years of experience in operational and/or strategic purchasing, ideally in the food industry or a regulated production environment
• You are a professionally recognized contact person in purchasing and want to develop further towards leadership
• Initial experience in the coordination of colleagues, project teams or external partners is an advantage
• You have a good understanding of quality, certification and regulatory requirements (e.g. IFS, food law) or motivation to familiarize yourself with these topics
• You work in a structured and analytical way, make well-founded decisions and keep track of complex situations.
• You have very good SAP-MM knowledge, secure handling of MS Office and shopping key figures
• You communicate clearly, bindingly and at eye level – internally and externally – and feel comfortable in an international environment
• You have very good knowledge of German and English