(Senior) Purchasing Manager / Strategic Buyer (all genders)

Overview

Your role As our (Senior) Purchasing Manager / Strategic Buyer you will take full ownership of a defined supplier portfolio or category, ensuring seamless execution within our purchasing process while actively contributing to inventory optimization and operational excellence. Establish a best-in-class Category Architecture: Design and implement a clear category structure across all spend, identify

What you'll do

• Your role As our (Senior) Purchasing Manager / Strategic Buyer you will take full ownership of a defined supplier portfolio or category, ensuring seamless execution within our purchasing process while actively contributing to inventory optimization and operational excellence.
• Establish a best-in-class Category Architecture: Design and implement a clear category structure across all spend, identifying key leverage areas, critical dependencies, and bottleneck categories.
• Lead high-impact cross-functional projects : Take ownership of critical initiatives such as the Raw Material Replacement project - a highly visible, cross-functional program requiring strong stakeholder alignment across procurement, R&D, Quality, Finance and Operations.
• Drive strategic transformation through data: Build transparency across our procurement landscape by structuring and analyzing spend data, enabling better decisions, prioritization, and negotiation strategies.
• Embed a robust risk management approach: Introduce structured risk frameworks across suppliers and categories, integrating quality and supply risk to strengthen long-term resilience.
• Drive structured cost optimization: Identify and execute COGS reduction opportunities through deep data analysis, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) thinking, and targeted supplier negotiations.
• Strengthen procurement processes and standards: Further develop and refine procurement processes (e.g.
• P2P workflows, SOPs), ensuring scalability, clarity, and high adoption across the team.
• Your profile Background & Experience: 5+ years of experience in strategic procurement, category management, or supply chain - ideally in FMCG, food or pharma.
• Experience in supplements would be highly valuable, but we also welcome candidates from similar industries with comparable complexity.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Operations.
• Experience level: 5+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Berlin.

Skills