Technical Buyer

**Technical Buyer,m/w/d,100%, Zürich**

Are you someone who loves to work in a fast paced, challenging environment where you will have the opportunity take on an impactful role in defining and driving purchasing initiatives? Do you thrive working in an environment where you can utilize your procurement skills to solve problems and build long-term solutions to advance procurement initiatives? Do you pride yourself on having an entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to see the big picture, deliver solutions and streamline processes? If you answered yes, we would love to discuss our Technical Buyer opportunity with you

In this role, you will play an integral part in defining and modeling the future of procurement directly associated with Sequana Medical’s production.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations
- Ensure reliable performance for on-time, complete, and accurate delivery with the best value meeting requirements at the lowest cost.
- Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
- Support product change requests, review and communicate the impact on operational activity and capacity plans
- Monitor and report on component obsolescence and develop plans for improving component obsolescence management.
- Support implementation and management of on-going operations for Procurement and eProcurement solutions.
- Support operations for the purchasing process primarily requisitioning and ordering.
- Process POs; ensure all necessary approvals are documented, the orders are placed, and shipments delivered on time
- Work with the cross-departmental team(s) and suppliers to get feasibility studies and quotes on new items. Review and select best quotes from time, quality and pricing standpoint.
- Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies, initiatives and advise on impact of change on purchasing and production activities
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues

**Key requirements**:

- Proven purchasing experience and knowledge of relevant purchasing and sourcing concepts, preferably within the electronics manufacturing environment
- Strong technical knowledge and understanding of electronics manufacturing processes
- Project management experience
- 3+ years’ experience in purchasing environment
- Medical device background and knowledge of relevant regulations (ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR 820, etc.) quality systems and relevant concepts is an advantage
- Resilient, self-motivated and able to work well under pressure
- Proficiency in MS Office products, ERP systems and its underlying business processes
- Fluent in verbal and written English and German

**Required education and professional experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in a relevant business/commercial or manufacturing/engineering degree or equivalent education
- Technical background and an apprenticeship in relevant field is an asset
- Relationship/team builder, both internally and externally with suppliers and employees
- Exhibits a high degree of ethics and integrity with full transparency and builds trust
- Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problem identification and solution abilities
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others
- Proactively contributes to the team, optimistic and open to change
- Computer literate, to include advanced Excel skills
- Very quality oriented, organized and reliable
- (Keywords: Technischer Einkäufer | Technischer Kaufmann | Technical Purchaser)_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Day shift