Operational Buyer (German Speaker)

About us:

Established in July 2015, the EMEA Business Service Center (BSC) is dedicated to empowering seamless operations. As Eaton's largest office location in EMEA and the region's only hub for business services support, the BSC provides essential services - from strengthening customer relationships, to enabling our electrical, industrial and corporate teams to deliver outstanding results.

The BSC helps Eaton businesses create exciting new power management technologies that keep our world moving every day.

What you'll do:

The purpose of the positon is to support Eaton manufacturing plants and other Eaton locations in the EMEA region with operational procurement activities from our Center of Excellence (CoE) office in Budapest.

You will:

• Procures direct materials *following plant and corporate regulations (QA, SCM)
• Communicates and coordinates with network schedulers for plan and execution updates
• Understands material requirements and processes requisitions to provide POs to suppliers
• Works closely with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of material to plant
• Resolving internal discrepancies with operations and external issues with suppliers (e.g. delivery issues, claims, quality issues etc.)
• Works closely with logistics partners and suppliers for material delivery as per incoterms
• Evaluates and monitors supply performance(SOTD) working with suppliers and category managers to implement corrective/preventive actions for on time performance improvement.
• Supplier invoice management and support in resolution of holds for timely payments
• Maintains inventory levels of materials in accordance with the objectives set and works with inputs from inventory analysts and network schedulers for optimized inventory level.
• Coordinates with Supplier Quality and suppliers for RMA of defective parts and related reverse logistics
• Works with Engineering, Products Managers and Category Managers for phase-in/out(ECN mgmt.)
• Maintains relevant purchasing data (specific to Price through SPIR policy ) and other purchasing data (e.g., unit price change, supplier lead time, MOQ, MOV, single/dual sourced, and so on) in collaboration with Data Health and Commodity team
• Utilizes all digital tools available for SCM for maximized efficiency .
• Responsible for sharing with the team: best materials management practices, continuous improvement of process, development of process standards, compliance with materials planning processes, and reporting in alignment with the network and global supply chain organization

Qualifications:

• College/University Degree
• 2+ years experience in Purchasing/ Procurement/ Material Management

Skills:
• Fluent English language capabilities, Intermediate German language capabilities, additional European language is a plus
• MS Office skills (Excel)
• Experience in purchasing/procurement (manufacturing environment preferred)
• ERP system experience (SAP, Oracle, Vista, BaaN, ...)
• Ability to communicate effectively
• CI mindset
• Proactive Can Do Attitude
• Ability to work in a team
• High level of accuracy

What we offer:

• Benefits packages
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Flexible working solutions (home office twice per week)
• We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible and we make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.