Procurement/Sourcing Specialist

For a 6 month project with our client in Solothurn, we are looking ASAP for a Procurement/Sourcing Specialist.

The Procurement/Sourcing Specialist- this is not a managerial role- will support category development, sourcing of components and supplier relationship management for the metals, electronics and packaging categories. Fluent German and English is needed for this role.

Tasks:
- Develop an expertise in the business needs and capabilities for major spend categories or key business processes.
- Keep up with supply market trends, supplier economics, and best practice sourcing.
- Ensure training on and compliance with relevant company procedures.
- Seek to improve capabilities of the supplier base or key business processes.
- Report performance data for assigned categories or key business processes.
- Communicate, monitor, and aggressively manage compliance with the sourcing strategy or business process.
- Establish close working relationships with other functions (eg engineering, operations, marketing, quality) to ensure full understanding and support of strategic sourcing perspective to key processes.
- Track and manage performance of suppliers and ensure that performance issues are quickly addressed.
- Identify sources of data for performance metrics, create a process to collect data, and champion the collection efforts.
- Champion annual productivity improvements by leading internal & joint supplier/teams pursuing cost reduction opportunities in alignment with the sourcing strategy (eg lowering inventory levels, increasing yields, improving supplier operations, etc.).
- Contribute to the continuous development of sourcing knowledge base and best practice by identifying and implementing sourcing "pockets of excellence".
- Partner with key stakeholders and partners to address technical issues for components and processes Additional duties as assigned.
- Know and follow all laws and policies that apply to one's job, and maintain the highest levels of professionalism, ethics and compliance at all times.

Qualifications.
Associate's degree in logistics, business administration, operations or equivalent experience
MBA preferred APICS (American Production & Inventory Control Society) or CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) certification preferred
Purchasing procedures.
Supplier manufacturing processes, Production systems, Receiving and inspection procedures.
Database management, Negotiation approaches, Contract law, Statistical methods.
Previous DePuy Synthes job experience preferred.
Excellent interpersonal skills required.
Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills required.
Creative & decisive problem solving skills.
Proven ability to influence/collaborate to get to desired result, Customer focus (internal & external), Adaptable to meet rapidly changing priorities, Sound reasoning, Strong Credo values1.
3 years procurement/sourcing experience preferred 1-3 years of Materials/Supply Chain experience is required. - persistent, fast thinking, dealing with ambiguity, stress resistant.

Language: German and English fluent