Senior Buyer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Job summary:

The Senior Buyer buys materials and services for our plants, managing about $30M in annual spend across 200 suppliers. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Switzerland. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Key responsibilities:

• Follow purchasing policy and approval limits.
• Maintain supplier records, price agreements and contracts.
• Review supplier price increase requests against commodity indexes.
• Coordinate returns and supplier corrective actions with quality.
• Manage blanket orders and consignment agreements.
• Run RFQs and RFPs and compare bids on total cost.

What you need:

• 5+ years of purchasing or procurement experience.
• Strong negotiation skills, with examples of savings you delivered.
• Occasional travel to supplier sites.
• Comfortable pushing suppliers on dates and price.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• Manufacturing or direct materials background.
• CPSM or CPIM certification.

CHF 85,000-CHF 108,000/year

Pay and benefits:

• Company pension scheme.
• Holiday pay.
• JobRad bike leasing.
• Meal allowance.
• Urban Sports Club membership.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Technologies GmbH.