# Strategic Purchaser

**Company**: AVL Italia S.p.A.
**Location**: Cavriago, IT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

The Strategic Purchaser plays a critical role in ensuring procurement success within complex products and / or multi-category projects. Acting as the primary representative of the purchasing function, this job integrates procurement activities with project management objectives, ensuring fulfillment of project / product requirements, aligning closely with the global category management team.

Responsibilities:

- Serves as the main liaison between the purchasing department and project teams, ensuring procurement alignment with project goals.

- Develops and manages project/product-specific procurement strategies to meet technical, budgetary, and timeline constraints of product / project.

- Coordinates the procurement of critical components and services for complex products and/or multi-category projects.

- Works closely with project management and operations/production to meet specific project objectives.

- Provides feedback to category managers on supplier performance and project challenges. Ensures category strategies are adapted to project-specific requirements

- Leads negotiations for project-specific contracts, focusing on minimizing risks and achieving favorable terms.

- Sets the interface to operational procurement / order handling.

- Supports cost transparency and value engineering efforts during project planning and execution.

- Identifies cost-saving opportunities and implements strategies to achieve project budget goals.

- Monitors and controls project-related procurement costs and provides regular updates to stakeholders.

Profile:

- Commercial or technical education (university of applied sciences, university of)

- Minimum 3 years in strategic purchasing, preferably in a project-driven or industrial environment.

- Experience in automotive, machinery, or systems engineering industries is a plus.

- Proven track record of managing procurement for complex products and/or multi-category projects.

- Experience in working with international matrix organizations and multicultural project teams.

- Ability to balance competing priorities and thrive in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.

- Advanced skills in supplier negotiation, contract management, and risk assessment.

- Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and procurement software.

- Stakeholder management and communication skills.

- A project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is a strong advantage

- Fluency in German and English languages

- Willingness to travel

## Skills

### Required
- strategic purchasing
- supplier negotiation
- contract management
- risk assessment
- ERP systems
- procurement software
- stakeholder management
- communication skills
- project management certification

### Nice to have
- German language
- English language

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