Your Role strategic international purchasing of raw materials, goods, services, production auxiliary and operating resources in series production ensuring uninterrupted global supply for series production of all Carl Zeiss Meditec sites continuous improvement of prices, purchasing conditions, general conditions and processes escalation with suppliers in case of supply issues and cost issues creation and maintenance of purchasing info records and other standard purchasing master data in SAP and other ERP systems collaboration on Zeiss group level, esp. regarding bundling potentials participation in internal and external audits if needed development and reporting of purchasing-relevant KPIs professional leading of sub-project teams sponsorship for interns Your Profile completed university degree (e.g. Bachelor) with min. 6 years strategic purchasing experience or commercial education combined with min. 9 years of professional experience in strategic purchasing purchasing experience with various direct materials, e.g. photonics, electronics, mechanics, laser advanced experience with creation and negotiation of contracts business German and business English fluent (both min. C1) additional foreign language skills would be an advantage flexibility, assertiveness, strategic mindset negotiation skills, goal-oriented communication skills application-ready knowledge of SAP-MM very good knowledge of MS Office willingness to travel both national and international Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Marina Löw