Buyer with German

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Buyer, your day starts with reviewing purchase requisitions in SAP, ensuring accuracy, and updating requisitioners on the conversion status. You then manage your worklist and mailbox, tackling new tasks such as processing supplier order confirmations and coordinating with project teams to align procurement activities with development needs.

Collaboration is a key part of the role - in team meetings, you'll discuss challenges, share ideas, and develop solutions together, such as identifying and onboarding new suppliers for prototype or test parts. In the afternoon, you may focus on preparing discussions around the continuous improvement of procurement processes, helping to drive efficiency and innovation across the team.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Creating, checking and completing purchase requisitions in SAP, including determining prices and suitable sources of supply
• Determining prices and suitable sources of supply / suppliers for test parts and initial samples as part of inquiries
• Continuously review own procurement lists, create and update purchase orders, monitor order confirmation, progress and compliance with quality requirements
• Independent clarification of necessary technical designs and critical quality requirements based on technical drawings, parts lists, etc. for the appropriate request for quotation
• Monitoring of order confirmations, delivery dates and, if necessary, reminders to suppliers

What You Bring

• You have a degree in Logistics, Planning, Scheduling, or related field, or equivalent qualification
• Demonstrated track record of extensive experience in procurement, with a preference for purchasing within a technical domain
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar position with basic IT skills (MS Office) and company-specific applications in SAP
• Sound knowledge of operational processes and the range of components
• The ability and willingness to acquire missing knowledge and to ask for support if necessary
• Assertiveness, flexibility, respect, fairness, empathy and sensitivity as well as a high level of self-motivation
• The ability to manage several tasks simultaneously
• Creativity, willingness to innovate and entrepreneurial understanding, conscientious work paired with pragmatism and a hands-on mentality
• Business fluent communication in German and English
• Availability to work from our Bucharest office 3 days per week, with 2 days remote

About the team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Your lunch with SE meal tickets.
• Keep your brain fit with our trainings.
• Special for books lovers - Bookstore.
• Stay safe and healthy with our medical subscription.
• Think about your future too with Privat Pension Pilon III.
• Take care of yourself with our Wellbeing Initiatives.

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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