Tactical Buyer

ZEISS India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ZEISS India in Bengaluru seeks a Tactical Buyer to ensure stable supply in line with quality, schedule and budget while coordinating with Strategic Procurement.

The role covers sourcing non‑managed materials, supplier coordination and active involvement in development projects to optimize procurement processes within the commodity group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a commercial field with technical understanding
• 3 years of professional experience in Purchasing or related areas
• Experience with SAP data maintenance, price analyses and supplier coordination

Responsibilities

• Analyze and coordinate requirements and procurement volumes with internal requestors to ensure bundling per commodity strategies.
• Clarify requirements with requestors and coordinate specification creation.
• Create inquiries, obtain quotations and concepts, prepare comparisons and price analyses; maintain data in SAP.
• Conduct contract and price negotiations, involving committees or stakeholders, considering commercial, technical and legal aspects.
• Carry out supplier management activities for locally sourced commodity groups, including evaluations.
• Independent handling of purchasing requirements and procurement projects with cost, quality and time in mind.
• Represent Procurement in development projects and control all procurement‑relevant processes.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and take on supplier responsibility.
• Analyze requirements and procurement volumes; clarify requirements, specifications and business opportunities.
• Operational creation and monitoring of purchase orders in ERP, plus communication with suppliers on dates and confirmations
• Clarification of price, quantity and delivery variances with suppliers and internal teams
• Review and approval of purchase orders per DOA; maintenance of master data and tools

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Supplier management

Data analysis

Sourcing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a commercial field with technical understanding

Tools

SAP

Job description

Function within the Organization:

• Ensuring a stable supply of goods and services in line with quality, schedule and budget requirements, in coordination with Strategic Procurement and in accordance with the overarching corporate and purchasing strategy.
• Tactical procurement forms the connecting level between operational and strategic procurement, but also independently takes over sourcing tasks for non‑managed material groups from the tendering to the awarding stage, within the defined value limits.
• As a representative of Procurement in development projects, the Tactical Buyer assumes comprehensive procurement‑related support and coordination of all internal and external stakeholders. The aim is to implement strategic specifications in day‑to‑day business and to optimize procurement processes within a defined material group or supplier portfolio.

Job Requirements:

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in a commercial field with technical understanding, or in a technical field with commercial understanding.

Professional experience

- 3 years of professional experience, preferably in Purchasing / in purchasing‑related areas.

1.Main Tasks / Main Responsibilities

• Analyzing and coordinating requirements and procurement volumes with internal requestors to ensure bundling potential in line with the defined commodity group strategies. Informing and advising the requestors (and, where applicable, stakeholders) on inquiry and procurement processes as well as handling modalities (including approval processes where necessary).
• Clarifying the requirements with the requestors as well as coordinating and tracking the creation of specifications.
• Creating and sending inquiries, obtaining quotations and concepts, preparing quotation and concept comparisons, and carrying out price analyses. Maintaining data in SAP (prices, terms and conditions, info records).
• Conducting contract and price negotiations and bringing about supplier decisions in coordination with the relevant committees or stakeholders, taking into account commercial, technical and legal aspects. This requires sound knowledge within the area of responsibility.
• Carrying out necessary supplier management activities (such as supplier evaluation or development) for locally responsible ("locally sourced") commodity groups.
• Independent processing of purchasing requirements and procurement projects, always taking costs, quality and time into account.
• Active participation in development projects as a representative of Procurement and control of all procurement‑relevant processes
• Active stakeholder management internally and externally, as well as taking on supplier responsibility
• Analyzing and coordinating requirements and procurement volumes
• Clarifying requirements, specifications and identifying business

2.Additional Tasks / Responsibilities

• Operational creation, maintenance and monitoring of purchase orders in the ERP system in compliance with existing purchasing processes and guidelines, as well as:
• Communication with suppliers regarding order confirmations, delivery dates and queries
• Clarification of price, quantity and delivery variances in coordination with suppliers and internal specialist departments
• Review and approval of purchase orders in accordance with the DOA (Delegation of Authority)
• Maintenance and further development of purchasing‑relevant master data and tool systems.