ANDRITZ SEPARATION is the world’s leading separation specialist, with the deepest knowledge, broadest technical resources, and most comprehensive service solutions. For more than 150 years, we have helped our customers respond to the world's environmental, energy-resource, health, and nutrition challenges by leveraging our extensive knowledge to create, develop, implement, and service innovative separation solutions. By solving these fundamental challenges, we create lasting value and drive growth across every industry we serve. Description of Responsibilities: develop and optimize the material flow between our suppliers and our production entities in China and Europe in accordance with the dynamic changes for logistics, production costs and capacities. coordinate the activities between our purchasing teams, located in Cologne and Munich (Germany), Chateraux (France) and our production entities in Foshan (China) and Humenne (Slovakia) valuate strategically vendor landscape and production location based on changing logistical situations in order to reduce our lead times and product costs develop and implement concepts for stocking components and raw materials based on restocking timed and market demand for product delivery develop and Implement monitoring tools to analyze KPI’s and allow fast counter measures you are reporting to the Product Home Manager for Mechanical Separation and work closely with the Product Managers, Purchasing Teams, Sales Teams and Local Production Managers. your successes reduce our product costs and lead times and thus directly strengthens our market position Qualification : Degree in business administration, economy or technical subject relevant for supply chain management Experience in international supply chain management is mandatory Experience with SAP and data analytics tools Willingness to travel Result and self-driven personality that follows target diligently and communicates clear tasks to the team Ability to plan strategically Excellent communication skills Excellent German and English language skills, French is a plus but not mandatory All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.