Purchasing Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Responsible for operational purchasing, encompassing demand planning, order placement, and monitoring delivery dates and product availability.

• Overseeing inventory levels, demand forecasting, and stock coverage.

• Utilizing JTL daily to plan, manage, and enhance purchasing efficiency.

• Maintaining and updating master data regularly.

• Analyzing purchasing, inventory, and sales data to proactively identify potential shortages and excess inventory.

• Engaging in negotiations regarding pricing and terms.

• Discovering opportunities for cost savings and optimization.

• Managing current suppliers while further developing supplier relationships.

• Assisting in the selection and evaluation of new suppliers.

• Continuously refining purchasing processes and frameworks.

• Establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and reporting metrics for inventory, product availability, purchasing terms, and opportunities.

• Collaborating closely with Product Management, Inventory Management, Executive Management, and other pertinent departments.

• Building an efficient and scalable purchasing function to support the company's ongoing growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience in purchasing, preferably within e-commerce, retail, FMCG, or consumer goods sectors.

• Practical, extensive experience with JTL; a strong command of the system is critical.

• Knowledge of operational purchasing as well as the strategic development of a purchasing function.

• Solid understanding of demand planning, inventory management, product availability, and supply chain flows.

• Strong affinity for numbers and exceptional analytical capabilities.

• Excellent negotiation skills and a confident approach when dealing with suppliers.

• Structured, independent, and solution-oriented work style.

• Ability to independently recognize problems and opportunities.

• Strong sense of ownership and a proactive mentality.

• Willingness to actively contribute to managing and shaping a business function.

• Alignment with the company's values and philosophy.

• Residency in Germany.

• Complete application documents, including a CV, cover letter with salary expectations and earliest possible start date, and references/certificates.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work – the flexibility to work from anywhere in Germany.

• 30 days of annual leave.

• A motivated and dedicated team united by a common mission.

• Regular team events to foster collaboration and camaraderie.

• Monthly non-cash benefits through Evenred.

• Attractive employee discounts.

• Significant creative freedom to actively shape our purchasing function.

• The chance to make a direct impact on the success of a sustainability-focused company.

• Permanent employment contract.

• Six-month probationary period.

• 40 hours per week.