Procurement Expert

Responsibilities

Profile

• Project for managing and further developing ordering and inventory management in a retail and distribution environment with a strong product range
• Ensuring product availability and optimizing inventory, tied-up capital, and service levels in daily operations
• Further developing forecast, disposition, and inventory logic, including safety stocks, order quantities, and returns processes
• Establishing and further developing transparent KPI management for inventory turnover, DIO, forecast accuracy, out-of-stock situations, and warehouse turnover, among others
• Optimizing and digitizing existing planning, procurement, and management processes within a SAP/ERP environment
• Coordinating relevant interfaces between purchasing, category management, logistics, sales, controlling, IT, and operations, as well as implementing agreed-upon optimization measures
• Experience in inventory management, supply chain planning, or disposition, ideally in a retail or distribution environment
• Sound knowledge of inventory optimization, forecasting, disposition, and service level management, as well as experience with relevant supply chain KPIs
• Experience in the functional and operational management of larger teams, ideally around 15-20 employees
• Very good SAP/ERP knowledge and experience with digital and automated planning and procurement processes
• Strong understanding of the interrelationships between product availability, inventory costs, tied-up capital, and profitability
• Hands-on and assertive working style with strong stakeholder management and experience in cross-departmental change and optimization projects

Project details

• Start: sofort
• Remote: remote
• Location: Hamburg, DE, DE
• Languages: German

Source notes

• Remote possible
• Scope for design