Strategic Purchaser - Facility Management & Logistics (German Speaker)

Our Global Sourcing and Procurement Department is committed to professional and compliant management of external spend across all IT and non-IT sectors. Our international teams work to negotiate global and local contracts with external vendors, optimizing our group's buying power.

You will

• Conducting national and regional tenders via SAP Ariba Source to Contract in line with internal guidelines, laws, and regulations.
• Executing procurement processes: proposal solicitation, evaluation, price comparisons, negotiations, and award decisions.
• Managing and updating contracts and amendments in SAP Ariba Source to Contract.
• Preparing market research summaries and advising business units on market trends, supplier options, and potential supply alternatives or standardizations.
• Consulting with business units and other entities on strategic and tactical procurement to optimize sourcing strategies and value for money.
• Analyzing procurement market spend and conducting benchmarking, considering 'best practice' and 'total cost of ownership' approaches.
• Coordinating with the business on demand requirements and potential bundling opportunities.
• Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, legal, compliance, data privacy departments, and procurement colleagues.
• Overseeing comprehensive contract management across the entire lifecycle, from decision making, tendering/contracting to contract exit management.

Your skills

• Degree in a commercial or technical field (Master's preferred) with several years of strategic procurement experience, ideally in Facility Management and Logistics.
• Proven track record in an international, complex organization with multiple operating entities.

• Fluency in German (required as 80% of daily business conducted in German), business proficient in English.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote team and under pressure.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with attention to detail and an affinity for numbers.
• Exceptional project management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Effective moderation and presentation skills with strong customer focus and persuasiveness.
• Independent, proactive worker with a keen ability to handle a variety of topics (e.g. IT security, Data Privacy, Legal, etc.).
• Proficiency in MS Office, SAP Ariba Source to Contract, e-auction.

We welcome self-starters with a passion for strategic procurement and a strong customer orientation to join our team.

Your benefits:

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz TechnologyAllianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 12,000 employees located in 51 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.We oversee the full digitalization spectrum - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. D&I statementAllianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity and cultural background, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.You. IT