Job Description
Purchasing Manager
Country/Region:
Italy
Job Location:
Valsamoggia
Required Travel (%):
10
Work Model:
onsite, hybrid
Purchasing Manager
Your Mission
As Purchasing Manager, you will shape a resilient, efficient, and future-ready procurement organization. You will ensure the availability of materials and services while driving sustainable cost optimization, working capital improvements, and supply chain performance. Through strategic sourcing, supplier development, and data-driven decision-making, you will identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership and strengthen the company's competitive position. Working closely with local and global stakeholders, you will help build a procurement function that supports profitable growth and operational excellence.
How you will make a difference
- Drive Cost Optimization: You lead strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, value engineering projects, and total cost of ownership analyses to achieve sustainable savings and improve profitability.
- Develop Procurement Strategy: You create sourcing strategies that align with the global procurement strategy and blends in local business goals while balancing cost, quality, delivery performance, and risk.
- Build Strategic Supplier Partnerships: You identify, qualify, and develop suppliers while establishing long-term relationships that create value and support cost competitiveness.
- Ensure Material Availability: You manage purchasing operations, supplier forecasts, and supply continuity to support production schedules and customer commitments.
- Optimize Inventory & Working Capital: You collaborate with Operations, Planning, and Finance to reduce excess inventory, improve inventory turns, and free up working capital.
- Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience: You proactively manage supplier risks, monitor market trends, and implement continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency and procurement performance.
What you should be good at
- Professional foundation: You hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline and bring seven to ten years of purchasing or procurement experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Leadership: You have at least three years of experience leading purchasing teams and can develop people through clear priorities, accountability, and constructive collaboration.
- Strategic procurement: You have strong capabilities in supplier negotiation, strategic sourcing, contract management, supplier development, and commercial decision-making.
- Operational expertise: You understand manufacturing processes, inventory management, supply chain operations, and ERP-based purchasing. Experience with IFS is an advantage.
- Analytical mindset: You use data, market insights, and structured problem-solving to manage cost, improve performance, mitigate risk, and support sound business decisions.
- International communication: You communicate fluently in Italian and English, work effectively in a multinational environment, and are available for occasional domestic and international travel.
What you can look forward to
- Strategic impact: You will influence procurement performance, manufacturing continuity, inventory efficiency, and profitable growth.
- Meaningful leadership: You will guide purchasing priorities, strengthen team capabilities, and establish trusted supplier relationships.
- International collaboration: You will exchange expertise with Deublin and HOERBIGER colleagues and contribute to procurement synergies across the global organization.
- Continuous improvement: You will have the opportunity to introduce better processes, apply DPS and Lean principles, and turn ideas into measurable results.
- Future-focused challenges: You will help create a more resilient, transparent, and data-driven supply chain.
- Professional growth: You will expand your leadership, strategic sourcing, and cross-functional business capabilities in an international manufacturing environment.
Who we are
Join our global team of over 7,500 colleagues and make a difference every day. Contribute to innovative solutions that save lives, reduce emissions, and drive progress in key industries like energy, automotive, and safety technology, as well as growth markets such as semiconductor, automation, photonics, aerospace and medical. Guided by our core values - Pioneering Spirit, Courage, Fairness, and Closeness - we are ENABLING CHANGE. FOR A BETTER TOMORROW. With opportunities to grow, learn, and collaborate across 40 countries and 150 locations, you’ll be part of a culture that values your ideas and your impact. Ready to make a difference? Apply today and become part of our journey. #YouMakeADifference
Your Mission
As Purchasing Manager, you will shape a resilient, efficient, and future-ready procurement organization. You will ensure the availability of materials and services while driving sustainable cost optimization, working capital improvements, and supply chain performance. Through strategic sourcing, supplier development, and data-driven decision-making, you will identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership and strengthen the company's competitive position. Working closely with local and global stakeholders, you will help build a procurement function that supports profitable growth and operational excellence.
How you will make a difference
- Drive Cost Optimization: You lead strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, value engineering projects, and total cost of ownership analyses to achieve sustainable savings and improve profitability.
- Develop Procurement Strategy: You create sourcing strategies that align with the global procurement strategy and blends in local business goals while balancing cost, quality, delivery performance, and risk.
- Build Strategic Supplier Partnerships: You identify, qualify, and develop suppliers while establishing long-term relationships that create value and support cost competitiveness.
- Ensure Material Availability: You manage purchasing operations, supplier forecasts, and supply continuity to support production schedules and customer commitments.
- Optimize Inventory & Working Capital: You collaborate with Operations, Planning, and Finance to reduce excess inventory, improve inventory turns, and free up working capital.
- Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience: You proactively manage supplier risks, monitor market trends, and implement continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency and procurement performance.
What you should be good at
- Professional foundation: You hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline and bring seven to ten years of purchasing or procurement experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Leadership: You have at least three years of experience leading purchasing teams and can develop people through clear priorities, accountability, and constructive collaboration.
- Strategic procurement: You have strong capabilities in supplier negotiation, strategic sourcing, contract management, supplier development, and commercial decision-making.
- Operational expertise: You understand manufacturing processes, inventory management, supply chain operations, and ERP-based purchasing. Experience with IFS is an advantage.
- Analytical mindset: You use data, market insights, and structured problem-solving to manage cost, improve performance, mitigate risk, and support sound business decisions.
- International communication: You communicate fluently in Italian and English, work effectively in a multinational environment, and are available for occasional domestic and international travel.
What you can look forward to
- Strategic impact: You will influence procurement performance, manufacturing continuity, inventory efficiency, and profitable growth.
- Meaningful leadership: You will guide purchasing priorities, strengthen team capabilities, and establish trusted supplier relationships.
- International collaboration: You will exchange expertise with Deublin and HOERBIGER colleagues and contribute to procurement synergies across the global organization.
- Continuous improvement: You will have the opportunity to introduce better processes, apply DPS and Lean principles, and turn ideas into measurable results.
- Future-focused challenges: You will help create a more resilient, transparent, and data-driven supply chain.
- Professional growth: You will expand your leadership, strategic sourcing, and cross-functional business capabilities in an international manufacturing environment.
Who we are
Join our global team of over 7,500 colleagues and make a difference every day. Contribute to innovative solutions that save lives, reduce emissions, and drive progress in key industries like energy, automotive, and safety technology, as well as growth markets such as semiconductor, automation, photonics, aerospace and medical. Guided by our core values - Pioneering Spirit, Courage, Fairness, and Closeness - we are ENABLING CHANGE. FOR A BETTER TOMORROW. With opportunities to grow, learn, and collaborate across 40 countries and 150 locations, you’ll be part of a culture that values your ideas and your impact. Ready to make a difference? Apply today and become part of our journey. #YouMakeADifference
Information at a Glance
Country/Region:
Italy
Job Location:
Valsamoggia
Required Travel (%):
10
Work Model:
onsite, hybrid
