Tactical Buyer Team Lead

Job Description

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Team Lead Tactical Buyer to join our Procurement Operations team in Poznan. In this role, you will lease and support a team of tactical buyers, ensuring efficient procurement processes and alignment with organizational goals. Strong German language skills are essential, as you will be collaborating with German-speaking stakeholders and suppliers. If you are a proactive leader with a background in tactical purchasing and a passion for team development, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Be compliant with all internal and external safety guidelines regarding environmental protection, occupational and traffic safety in accordance with the Grace EHS System.
• Work closely with category managers and business units to establish and deliver procurement requirements, strategic benefits and compliance to existing procurement contracts.
• Manage transactional buying activities and support wider strategic category management, including converting compliant and approved purchase requisitions to purchase orders within SAP Ariba and SAP ECC platforms.
• Monitor and challenge non-compliant buying activities.
• Maintain sound professional relationships with suppliers. Resolve issues (e.g. pricing, quality, timing, claims, contract disputes, etc.) associated with terms and conditions of service agreements.
• Manage supplier quality expectations and process minor complaints. Manage suppliers to recover on delivery, material, or service expectations.
• Maintain system data integrity and measure performance on related key indicators (examples: past due purchase orders, open PO acknowledgements, PO expedites, non-conforming material return, and supplier invoice resolution).
• Participate in project work to identify and document process and cost improvement initiatives as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Functional Procurement experience supporting tactical and strategic activities for direct and indirect categories within a manufacturing organization.
• Ability to operate effectively in different cultures and across geographies, including managing stakeholders and colleagues remotely (across distance and time zones) desirable.
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to champion the vision of the Procurement organization.
• Strong communication, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance total cost of ownership (TCO), strategic and tactical delivery desirable.
• Good professional command of German and English language. Other languages are a plus (Spanish, Swedish).
• Structured yet flexible. Comfortable with/able to thrive in conditions of change and complexity desirable.
• Ability to drive behavioral change desirable.
• Willingness to continuously learn and develop, including trainings in SAP systems and category management principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Proficient in SAP ECC and SAP Ariba.

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Premium Medical Insurance (Medicover)
• Life Insurance (for employee & family members)
• Reimbursement for glasses for computer work
• Sports Card (goFIT)
• Language Courses