<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<source>
  <jobs>
    <job>
      <externalid>65fa4b39-9b6</externalid>
      <Title>Senior Purchasing Specialist</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>Job Title: Senior Purchasing Specialist\n\nLocation: Thalgau, Austria\n\nJob Type: Full-time\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nWe are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Purchasing Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our purchasing department, you will be responsible for leading the purchasing team, managing SAP projects, and optimising purchasing processes. You will also be responsible for external purchasing, collaborating with suppliers, and managing complex procurement processes.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n- Lead the purchasing team and develop a clear career path for future purchasing leadership\n\n- Manage SAP projects for central purchasing and maintain and control all purchasing data in SAP\n\n- Optimise, digitalise, and continuously develop purchasing processes\n\n- Be responsible for external purchasing and collaborate closely with suppliers\n\n- Manage complex procurement processes, price comparisons, and negotiations\n\n- Regularly create purchasing plans and plan the entire goods flow\n\n- Ensure delivery security, including documentation and claims management\n\nRequirements:\n\n- Excellent communication skills in German and English, high level of initiative, and negotiation strength\n\n- Several years of experience in strategic and operational purchasing or a comparable function\n\n- Completed commercial training (apprenticeship, university, or technical background with a focus on purchasing)\n\n- Excellent MS Office skills; safe handling of SAP is desirable\n\n- Professional appearance, assertiveness, and entrepreneurial approach\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\n- Secure job in an international company with a stable future perspective\n\n- Flexible working hours without core hours and home office possibility\n\n- Enjoy and community: discounted lunch menu, free coffee and fruit, regular employee events\n\n- Various sports and leisure offers, including EGYM Wellpass app\n\n- We are looking for you to start immediately and offer a gross salary of €42,000.00)</p>
<p style="margin-top:24px;font-size:13px;color:#666;">XML job scraping automation by <a href="https://yubhub.co">YubHub</a></p>]]></Description>
      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>€42,000.00</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>SAP, MS Office, German, English, Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Digitalisation, Process Optimisation, Negotiation, Communication</Skills>
      <Category>Operations</Category>
      <Industry>Manufacturing</Industry>
      <Employername>FUCHS</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/jobs.fuchs.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>FUCHS is a leading international company specialising in the development and production of lubricants and related products.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://jobs.fuchs.com</Employerwebsite>
      <Compensationcurrency></Compensationcurrency>
      <Compensationmin></Compensationmin>
      <Compensationmax></Compensationmax>
      <Applyto>https://jobs.fuchs.com/job/Thalgau-Senior-Spezialist-Einkauf-%28WMD%29-5303/1369871933/</Applyto>
      <Location>Thalgau</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-03-09</Postedate>
    </job>
  </jobs>
</source>