- Development of sourcing strategies and optimization of procurement processes
- Design, creation, and implementation of cost-saving programs
- Leading strategic negotiations and game-theory-based tendering in procurement
- Execution of procurement transformations (e.g., Total Operating Model, process modeling)
- Strategic analysis of material groups, procurement markets, and technical specifications
- Conducting strategic negotiations with suppliers (including monopolists)
- Preparation and execution of game-theory-based tender processes
Copy of Director / Manager Procurement Operations (m/f/d)
bundesweit/global
Full-time
Permanent employee
Your mission
Your profile
- Successfully completed degree in economics or engineering
- Proven multi-year professional experience in the procurement department (direct and indirect) of an industrial company or a consulting firm, including interim roles
- Operational expertise in negotiation and structuring of procurement processes
- Practical experience with turnaround projects in procurement is a plus
- Experience working with procurement platforms such as Coupa, Synertrade, SMART, SAP Ariba, etc.
- Excellent communication skills in both German and English with a confident presence
- Strong analytical skills paired with a pragmatic, independent working style
- Willingness to travel: Four days per week at the respective portfolio company
Why us?
- The opportunity to create real entrepreneurial value through operational management
- Dynamic career development within a successful and rapidly growing investment firm and its portfolio companies
- An attractive and performance-based compensation package
- A respectful corporate culture based on the principle of "high impact, low ego"
About us
AEQUITA is an owner-managed investment company based in Munich, specializing in the operational and financial support of companies in special and transitional situations. In addition to our investment team, which is responsible for transaction, valuation, and due diligence matters, we have a large operations team composed of experienced managers and experts from the automotive, mechanical and plant engineering industries, as well as various other industrial service sectors. Thanks to the extensive expertise of our employees, we are able to act as active partners to achieve successful and sustainable value creation for our portfolio companies.