Purchasing Officer specialising in Supplier Performance & Escalation Management (all genders)
Safety Beyond – Join the team behind the world’s safest vision systems!
At Kappa optronics, everything revolves around high-tech with real impact. Our vision systems are among the global leaders in defense, aviation, and automotive. With our cameras, international customers rely on the highest safety and innovation.
Your Tasks:
- Managing supplier escalations in cases of delivery delays, shortages, and critical supply situations
- Analyzing and improving the performance of underperforming suppliers using relevant metrics and reports
- Demanding, evaluating, and tracking concrete action and improvement plans from suppliers
- Conducting escalation, action, and negotiation discussions and consistently following up on agreed results
- Identifying supply risks and weaknesses and coordinating appropriate countermeasures with procurement, quality, production, and other departments
- Supporting the sustainable development and stabilization of supplier performance
- Close collaboration with quality management in analyzing, addressing, and sustainably resolving critical quality and supplier issues
Your Profile:
- Completed studies in industrial engineering, supply chain management, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a comparable technical-commercial qualification
- Several years of professional experience in procurement, supplier management, or supply chain management, ideally in a manufacturing industrial company
- Good technical and commercial understanding as well as the ability to quickly grasp complex supply and procurement situations
- Experience in analyzing and managing supplier performance and relevant KPIs
- Strong communication, negotiation, and assertiveness skills, even in challenging discussions
- Hands-on mentality and enthusiasm for actively solving challenging situations and addressing conflicts confidently
- High resilience and decision-making ability, as well as the capacity to remain calm and make sound decisions under time and action pressure
- Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented working style with a high degree of initiative
- Very good German and English skills
We Offer:
- Professional tasks as diverse and varied as our technology
- Career prospects for employees who want to work independently and actively contribute
- Short decision-making processes and excellent development opportunities
- A highly motivated team and a family-like company environment
- Job-related training and company pension schemes
- Employee benefits (e.g., bike leasing, job car, English courses, German courses, corporate benefits)
- Kindergarten care allowance (up to €300.00 per child per month)
- Free use of e-charging stations or subsidies for job tickets (Germany ticket)
- EGYM Wellpass: Access to 8,000+ fitness and wellness facilities – employee contribution €30/month
- Flexible working time models
- 30 days of annual leave
