Buyer (m/f/d) for Powersports Apparel

Parts Europe; Wasserliesch; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Secure job

Multinational team

Flexible working times

Onboarding support

Employee events

Company bike leasing

Job ticket

Health management

Job summary

Parts Europe, headquartered in Germany, is seeking a purchasing professional to develop and implement optimal purchasing strategies and concepts, negotiate with suppliers, and align procurement with warehouse capacity. You will manage vendor relationships, review product ranges, and coordinate purchasing activities using the ERP Forecast-System, while maintaining accurate purchasing data.

The role requires a completed commercial or technical training with at least two years of purchasing

Qualifications

• Commercial or technical training completed with at least two years' purchasing experience.
• Technical understanding mandatory and strong ERP/Office knowledge.
• Excellent English communication; other languages beneficial.
• Strong negotiation, cost-consciousness, and assertiveness.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement optimal purchasing strategies and concepts.
• Negotiate prices and conditions with suppliers.
• Plan purchased quantities via market observations to align with inventory and warehouse capacity.
• Manage vendor relationships and review product ranges for additions or deletions.
• Coordinate purchasing activities using the ERP Forecast-System.
• Maintain purchasing data and assist in catalogue production.

Skills

Negotiation skills

English communication

Organization & self-management

Cost-consciousness

Education

Commercial or technical training

Tools

MS Office (Excel)

ERP systems

Job description

• Working from our headquarters in Germany, you participate in the development, improvement and implementation of optimal purchasing strategies and concepts.
• You negotiate prices and conditions with our suppliers and take care of implementing those.
• By carrying out extensive market observations, you are able to do the forward planning of purchased quantities, ensuring our inventory levels align with corporate policies and warehouse capacity.
• You will manage vendor relationships, reviewing of product ranges and provide recommendations for additions or deletions.
• Additionally, you coordinate overall purchasing activities, process provider reclamations and handle orders by using our ERP Forecast-System.
• Furthermore, you will maintain purchasing data (e.g., product availability, vendor policy, costs) and assist in catalogue production by acquiring and updating product information.

Your responsibilities:

• Working from our headquarters in Germany, you participate in the development, improvement and implementation of optimal purchasing strategies and concepts.
• You negotiate prices and conditions with our suppliers and take care of implementing those.
• By carrying out extensive market observations, you are able to do the forward planning of purchased quantities, ensuring our inventory levels align with corporate policies and warehouse capacity.
• You will manage vendor relationships, reviewing of product ranges and provide recommendations for additions or deletions.
• Additionally, you coordinate overall purchasing activities, process provider reclamations and handle orders by using our ERP Forecast-System.
• Furthermore, you will maintain purchasing data (e.g., product availability, vendor policy, costs) and assist in catalogue production by acquiring and updating product information.

You bring along:

• You have successfully completed a commercial or technical training and already gained at least two years experience in purchasing technical products.
• Technical understanding is mandatory for this position, as well as in-depth knowledge within the European Powersports market, preferably within the Apparel segment.
• You have good commercial knowledge alongside strong negotiation skills, assertiveness and a dedicated sense of cost-consciousness.
• Excellent communication skills in English written and spoken are necessary for this position, additional languages are beneficial.
• You have advanced knowledge of MS Office programs (especially Excel) and ERP systems, along with strong organizational and self-management skills.

What we offer:

• A secure job in a constantly growing company
• A multinational team with colleagues from all over the world and an agreeable working atmosphere within the Powersports industry
• Flexible working times in full and part-time and modern working equipment.
• Onboarding and support for new employees
• Regular employee events, excursions, guided motorcycle tours and special sales events
• Company bike leasing and a job ticket for the regional public transport
• Company health management with organized health days, check-ups, group sport activities, contribution to fitness center membership fee, etc.

We value diversity and therefore welcome applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.