Project Buyer (f/m/div.)

Bosch; Aveiro; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work conditions

Hybrid work system

Health insurance and medical on-site

Job summary

Bosch Aveiro is seeking a senior purchasing leader to guide a seven-person team across global and matrix environments. You will own project purchasing, supplier negotiations, and category strategies to ensure cost efficiency and timely delivery.

You will collaborate with R&D, Quality, Logistics, and manufacturing to drive dual sourcing, localization, and supply resilience for electronic components.

Qualifications

• Experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management.
• Experience leading purchasing professionals.
• Experience in project purchasing and/or New Product Introduction (NPI) is highly valued.
• Experience working with international suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization.
• Experience within electronics or electronic components purchasing is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization.
• Translate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables.
• Plan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations.
• Conduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions.
• Ensure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities.

Skills

Team leadership

People development

Procurement

Project purchasing

NPI

RFQ management

Cost targeting

Supplier management

Global coordination

English

Education

Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management

Job description

Company Description

The Bosch Group has more than 400 000 employees around the world, present in 60 countries, and we are proud to impact people’s lives and to work towards a more sustainable future.

In the city of Aveiro, Bosch has one of its biggest production sites for Bosch Home Comfort division, as well as a Research and Development Center for new and improved heating solutions for the residential segment. With more than 1400 employees, focused on innovation, sustainability and collaboration, Bosch Aveiro joins together experts in diverse areas, from mechanical engineering to connectivity and software solutions, as well as industrialization and quality.

At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other. Join in and feel the difference in mindsets, cultures, generations, identities and perspectives. Everyone should bring their authenticity and work together respectfully. Bosch is an employer that values diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and we can provide reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process and in the performance of professional activity. By including everyone and ensuring equal opportunities we unleash our full potential.

Job Description

Team Leadership and People Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization.
• Translate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables.
• Plan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations.
• Conduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions.
• Ensure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities.

Operational Project Purchasing and NPI

• Act as Project Buyer for selected electronics development projects and represent commercial purchasing interests in the project team.
• Drive supplier involvement from early design phases through sourcing decision, qualification, industrialization, and series launch.
• Own project purchasing milestones, supplier deliverables, cost targets, and commercial readiness in line with project timing.
• Coordinate RFQs, quotations, sourcing recommendations, negotiation packages, and award decisions with relevant stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate project risks related to capacity, lead time, tooling, lifecycle, localization, and supply continuity.
• Ensure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of deviations affecting cost, quality, delivery, or launch readiness.

Category, Supplier and Commercial Management

• Guide purchasing activities for the assigned component scope, including passive and active electronic components and distribution channels.
• Align supplier and category strategies across global and regional responsibilities, including tandem cooperation with APAC counterparts.
• Lead or support price, contract, capacity, payment-term, and claim negotiations in line with global targets.
• Drive cost transparency through benchmarking, cost breakdowns, design-to-cost, and value-engineering measures.
• Monitor supplier performance and coordinate corrective actions or escalations with quality, logistics, engineering, and plants.
• Support dual sourcing, localization, resilience, and lifecycle strategies for critical electronic components.

Cross-Functional and Global Coordination

• Act as the interface between Purchasing, R&D, Quality, Logistics, Controlling, manufacturing plants, and suppliers.
• Coordinate with Global Category Managers, Regional Category Managers, and buyers to ensure clear ownership and consistent supplier communication.
• Prepare concise management updates, decision proposals, and escalation summaries with clear business impact and required actions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of purchasing processes, standards, and cross-regional ways of working.

Qualifications

What distinguishes you:

What distinguishes you?

Education

• Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a comparable field.

Experience

• Relevant professional experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management, ideally within a technical or industrial environment.
• Experience leading, coaching or developing purchasing professionals.
• Experience in project purchasing and/or New Product Introduction (NPI) is highly valued.
• Experience working with international suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization.
• Experience within electronics or electronic components purchasing is a strong advantage.

Know-how

• Strong understanding of strategic and project purchasing, including RFQs, sourcing decisions and supplier negotiations.
• Solid commercial understanding of cost structures, benchmarking, contracts and supplier performance.
• Knowledge of electronic components, supplier markets and distribution channels is valuable.
• Familiarity with design-to-cost, value engineering, localization, dual sourcing and supply resilience approaches.
• Ability to identify and manage supplier risks related to cost, quality, capacity, delivery and component lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of purchasing processes, governance and commercial decision-making.

Languages

• Very good command of English, written and spoken, for effective collaboration in a global environment.
• Additional languages are an advantage.

Working Style and Methods

• You combine a strategic perspective with a hands-on approach, moving comfortably between people leadership, project purchasing and commercial topics.
• You make structured, fact-based decisions and communicate priorities clearly.
• You manage multiple stakeholders and priorities effectively, particularly in complex project environments.
• You approach negotiations and escalations with a solution-oriented and commercially minded perspective.

Personality

• You enjoy developing people and creating an environment where team members can take ownership and grow.
• You communicate confidently and constructively across functions, regions and seniority levels.
• You are collaborative while being comfortable challenging assumptions and driving decisions when needed.
• You demonstrate ownership, sound judgement and resilience when navigating complex purchasing topics.

Additional Information

Work #LikeABosch includes:

• Flexible work conditions
• Hybrid work system
• Exchange with colleagues around the world
• Health insurance and medical office on site (general surgeon, psychology, physiotherapy, general clinic)
• Training opportunities (p.e., technical training, foreign languages training) & certifications
• Opportunities for career progression and continuous professional development
• Access to great discounts in partnerships and Bosch products
• Sports and health related activities
• Flexible benefits platform
• Free parking lot
• Canteen

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