Project Buyer (f/m/div.)

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.

Cross-Functional and Global Coordination
• Act as the interface between Purchasing, R&D, Quality, Logistics, Controlling, manufacturing plants, and suppliers.
• Coordinate with Global Category Managers, Regional Category Managers, and buyers to ensure clear ownership and consistent supplier communication.
• Prepare concise management updates, decision proposals, and escalation summaries with clear business impact and required actions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of purchasing processes, standards, and cross-regional ways of working.

What distinguishes you:

What distinguishes you?

Education

• Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a comparable field.

Experience

• Relevant professional experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management, ideally within a technical or industrial environment.
• Experience leading, coaching or developing purchasing professionals.
• Experience in project purchasing and/or New Product Introduction (NPI) is highly valued.
• Experience working with international suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization.
• Experience within electronics or electronic components purchasing is a strong advantage.

Know-how

• Strong understanding of strategic and project purchasing, including RFQs, sourcing decisions and supplier negotiations.
• Solid commercial understanding of cost structures, benchmarking, contracts and supplier performance.
• Knowledge of electronic components, supplier markets and distribution channels is valuable.
• Familiarity with design-to-cost, value engineering, localization, dual sourcing and supply resilience approaches.
• Ability to identify and manage supplier risks related to cost, quality, capacity, delivery and component lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of purchasing processes, governance and commercial decision-making.

Languages

• Very good command of English, written and spoken, for effective collaboration in a global environment.
• Additional languages are an advantage.

Working Style and Methods

• You combine a strategic perspective with a hands-on approach, moving comfortably between people leadership, project purchasing and commercial topics.
• You make structured, fact-based decisions and communicate priorities clearly.
• You manage multiple stakeholders and priorities effectively, particularly in complex project environments.
• You approach negotiations and escalations with a solution-oriented and commercially minded perspective.

Personality

• You enjoy developing people and creating an environment where team members can take ownership and grow.
• You communicate confidently and constructively across functions, regions and seniority levels.
• You are collaborative while being comfortable challenging assumptions and driving decisions when needed.
• You demonstrate ownership, sound judgement and resilience when navigating complex purchasing topics.

Work #LikeABosch includes:

⚖️ Flexible work conditions

🔀 Hybrid work system

🌐 Exchange with colleagues around the world

🧑‍⚕️ Health insurance and medical office on site (general surgeon, psychology, physiotherapy, general clinic)

📚 Training opportunities (p.e., technical training, foreign languages training) & certifications

📈 Opportunities for career progression and continuous professional development

💲 Access to great discounts in partnerships and Bosch products

🏋️ Sports and health related activities

💰 Flexible benefits platform

🅿️ Free parking lot

🍽️ Canteen

Success stories don´t just happen. They are made...

Make it happen! We are looking forward to your application!