Materials Manager

**What's the role?**:
**Who is Hilti?**:
For the sixth time in the past 11 years, Hilti has been named one of the best employers by Great Place to Work. A family-established company, we are over 32,000 employees based in 120 international locations. At Hilti, we provide leading-edge tools, technologies, software, and services for the global construction industry and beyond. Our strong customer relationships make us a partner on the job site, creating solutions that build a better future. We invest a substantial amount of our annual profit to the Hilti Foundation, which focuses on initiatives that empower people to live independently and autonomously, contribute to building stronger societies, and create networks of competent partners to achieve sustainable and scalable impact.

**What does the role involve?**:
In this exciting role you will be responsible for Supply Planning and its execution along the supply chain including in-house production planning and external suppliers. You will also support developing and implementing materials management strategies & concepts along the Supply Chain, improving product costs and participate in new product introduction. Furthermore, you will analyze and track the performance of related suppliers/plants and execute improvement activities with related stakeholders. You will be in close contact with Hilti Market Organizations, Business Units, Plants & Suppliers to manage all stock shortages and ensuring that appropriate action is taken to resolve and coordinate with transportation and warehousing to optimize transport and storage costs. You will take ownership of relevant KPI's to ensure operational excellence for your product portfolio and identify and drive opportunities for improvement. Besides the explained standard business, 50% of your role is to focus on reporting and its process improvements for Material Management across all Business Units, covering all relevant areas of our function. Your entrepreneurial spirit is driving improved collaboration with all relevant stakeholder by establishing better transparency and communication along the entire process

Our logistics operation is special because we own our whole supplychain, something that’s almost unique for a company of our size.

**What do we offer?**:
Join over 3000 colleagues from over 70 nationalities at one of our Headquarter locations in Schaan, Nendeln, or Buchs is more than a career move. It’s your opportunity to enjoy the energizing, alpine lifestyle - where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland seamlessly meet. It’s an unforgettable life change.

Share your interests and become a part of one of our employee groups leading change locally, for example, supporting female empowerment or the LGBTQ+ community, etc, or joining a sports group for a Wednesday mountain bike ride or tennis match, etc. If you are passionate about giving back to the community, we have various opportunities to volunteer through our engaged beyond business program locally and internationally.

Additional benefits of our headquarters location include shared e-bikes for your commute, an on-site gym, two restaurants, language courses, learning and development training opportunities, tax insurance, financial guidance, child care, relocation and spousal support, and more.

**What you need is**:

- University degree in _(engineering or) _economical field or relevant logistics experience
- Process and system know-how in Supply Chain, min 4 years of experience
- Fluent in English, additional languages are a plus
- Good knowledge in project management
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Be able to negotiate and compromise with external and internal stakeholders
- Analytical personality with a result driven mindset
- Good knowledge in MS OFFICE
- Advanced Excel skills that include PowerBI and Dax coding
- SAP/APO should be known, BW and Blue Yonder (JDA) are a plus

**Why should you apply?**:
You are someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies, where a job title is not considered a final destination but the starting point. You are open to develop your career internationally in the future.- For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland / Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss / Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.- Hilti is an equal opportunity employer.