Tactical Sourcing - with German Language

At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast.

Chain IQ is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end-to-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters - bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition.

Senior Buyer

Join our Team

It is an exciting time at Chain IQ and our team in Bucharest are looking for a Senior Buyer in IT Bucharest team.

Chain IQ generate value far beyond cost reduction. We transform our client's indirect procurement towards a world-class, resilient, ethical and digitalized end-to-end function. We promote a culture of collaboration and shared excellence while encouraging an open and honest exchange of ideas. We offer the potential for significant corporate growth and career development.

Our ambition is to strengthen the existing highly experienced team to provide the best in industry support to our growing client base.

Responsibilities:

• main activity: handle sourcing requests for category in scope; working on a sourcing request suppose interaction in English with stakeholders and contract negotiation (commercial and legal aspects for example: price, terms and conditions, legal annexes)

• collaboration with Head of Sourcing, Sourcing Operations and Tactical Buying and Team Leads to ensure optimal use of Sourcing, Sourcing Operations and Tactical Buying capabilities

• establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal, client and supplier stakeholders
• supporting market tenders and managing the evaluation across cross-functional teams to determine the selection of the suppliers
• supporting analysis of proposals and producing recommendations
• negotiating deals (of varying size and complexity) to achieve optimal commercial, specification, compliance and contractual outcomes
• drafting and reviewing contracts based on standard terms and conditions
• following internal policies, processes, and procedures
• identifying opportunities to drive improvements and contributes to their implementation
• adhering to the corporate standards, including using the defined sourcing tools and processes in delivery of sourcing initiatives according to the client requirements
• ensuring customer satisfaction, functional KPIs, SLAs and other performance objectives are met including savings targets
• ensuring accuracy of data and compliance with the given sourcing requirements (based on client methodology and requirements).
• ensuring proactive, timely engagement with clients and managing customer expectations with regard to project timelines and solution features
• ensuring proactivity for additional support/extra activities/projects

Qualifications

• 3-5 years proven experience in sourcing/acquisition in a corporate environment with a good understanding of the challenges, processes and requirements of sourcing process
• very good fluency in English (written and verbal)
• experience in negotiations for the benefit of stakeholders
• experience with ERP system

Key Skills

• proactive, result oriented team-player with the ability to work independently
• ability to respect deadlines and prioritize a busy workload
• ability to gain credibility with internal stakeholders and persuade people to change and/or adhere to a certain strategic direction is essential
• high attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• ability to act quickly
• confident decision making
• open to changes and positive attitude
• positive attitude toward embracing the challenges and changes

Join a truly global team.

We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be Great Place to Work-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let's shape the future of procurement - together.

Chain IQ - Create. Lead. Make an impact.

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