Senior Buyer – Private Label
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Senior Buyer steuert strategischen Einkauf für AlphaPets Online-Heimtiergeschäft. Verantwortlich für Lieferanten, Ausschreibungen, Verhandlungen, Spend-Analysen und AI-gestützte Sourcing-Workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Independent management of designated suppliers and product categories
- Develop and manage supplier scorecards for on-time delivery, quality and cost
- Sustainable supplier development
- Conduct structured tenders and lead negotiations and renegotiations of terms
- Actively mitigate price increases and apply data-driven price pressure
- Build and maintain spend transparency
- Create benchmarks, price analyses and forecasting at the product-category level
- Reporting and KPI management to the VP and COO
- Perform LLM-supported market research and contract review
- Automate recurring sourcing workflows
- Help shape modern, data-driven sourcing methods
- Systematically further develop strategic procurement
Requirements:
- 7+ years' experience in strategic procurement, ideally in FMCG / petfood / food
- Independent responsibility for tenders and negotiations with volumes in the double-digit million euro range
- Experience with data-driven sourcing methods and market intelligence
- Confidence in managing critical suppliers
- Affinity for AI and a data-driven mindset
- Fluent use of modern data and AI tools
- Hands-on, assertive and results-oriented
- Fluent German and English (negotiation-level)
- Scale-up or private equity-backed experience (nice-to-have)
- Petfood-specific raw material and packaging knowledge (nice-to-have)
- Experience building supplier scorecard systems (nice-to-have)
- Experience with AI-supported sourcing workflows such as contract review, tender creation and negotiation preparation (nice-to-have)
- Experience working in remote-first teams (nice-to-have)
- Application including cover letter, résumé, earliest possible start date and salary expectations
Benefits:
- Responsible, exciting and varied tasks with plenty of scope to shape things
- Flat hierarchies and an open, relaxed working atmosphere
- Flexible working hours based on a trust-based working time model
- Home-office options including a contribution to home-office equipment costs
- Possibility to work from abroad for several months
- 28 days' vacation entitlement
- Option to take up to 20 days unpaid leave as well as special leave
- Internal and external development opportunities
- Employee discounts for employees and their pets
- Regular team, company and family & friends events
- Social area with table football and Nintendo Switch
- High-quality, fully equipped office kitchen
- Free drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and sweets
- Subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership
- Access to modern AI tools
- Multiple office dogs at the locations
