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Job description
As a Senior Buyer, you will play a critical role in keeping life‑changing products moving through our global supply chain. This role sits at the center of supplier collaboration, demand planning, and execution - where your decisions directly impact product availability, customer service, and business continuity.
What You Will Do
- Manage strategic and tactical purchasing activities for an assigned portfolio to ensure uninterrupted supply and target customer service levels.
- Maintain accurate purchasing master data in enterprise systems, including supplier lead times, product details, and replenishment parameters.
- Communicate forecasted demand and weekly requirement changes to suppliers based on supply planning reviews.
- Execute purchase orders in line with agreed purchasing rules and account strategies.
- Define, communicate, and execute safety stock levels for raw materials and finished goods to support service and risk mitigation targets.
- Act as the primary point of contact for suppliers to resolve availability issues, adjust requirements, and escalate risks as needed.
- Track, analyze, and report supplier performance using standard metrics such as on-time-in-full delivery, lead time compliance, and purchase price variance.
- Lead or contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on cost, cash flow, lead time, and supply resilience while ensuring quality and regulatory compliance.
What You Will Need
Required
- Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in purchasing, procurement, manufacturing, or supply chain execution.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English and German
Preferred
- Experience using enterprise resource planning systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or JD Edwards).
- Experience in supplier relationship management within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience working in a regulated industry, such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or aerospace.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement or cost reduction methodologies.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Additional language proficiency relevant to the supplier base.
Salary information will be provided during the recruitment process.
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
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