Senior Materials Buyer

Change world of tomorrow with us.
Our Siemens business unit Motion Control (DI MC) is one of the world's leading providers of products, systems, solutions, and services in the field of Motion Control. This includes around 10,000 employees and two business segments. With its global production sites, R&D, and service locations, MC is close to its customers and at home in a wide range of industries.

At our factory network Siemens AG develops and manufactures electric motors for the global market. Our target customers are in the field of automation technology, in the automotive industry and in the field of intra-logistics. To further drive our successful growth, we will expand our locations in a targeted manner over the next few years. The topics of digitalization and simulations support us in planning for the future and in implementation.

Based in Oradea
, we are looking for a "Senior Materials Buyer / MRP Controller" that helps us to optimize and manage our materials buying/planning.

What part will you play?

• Purchase raw material and finished parts & maintain material plan at the time fence to ensure continuity of supply at highest level at optimal costs & inventory levels.
• Maintain proactive shortage identification and inventory management - flag root causes & take corrective actions. Expedite deliveries to meet and exceed scheduled critical requirements or postpone deliveries where required to optimize inventory levels. Interface with required functional groups to resolve challenging delivery requirements.
• Work closely with suppliers: Monitor their ability to meet delivery dates, reschedule purchase orders and resolve any supply issues with the supplier. Provide forecasts and other relevant information required by suppliers to support company's requirements. Monitor past due orders and work with suppliers, receiving and accounting to resolve issues. Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve quality issues with suppliers.
• Conduct regular on-site performance reviews with your suppliers to optimize the sourcing process, actively driving & managing process improvement activities to ensure high delivery reliability, install optimal sourcing models, introduce returnable packaging to save process cost etc.
• Maintain and continuously evaluate supplier performance, develop your supplier base being involved from new supplier selection & introduction, change or material substitutions working in a cross-functional team with technology, quality & strategical procurement to ensure a smooth, reliable supply at optimal cost and inventory levels.
• Manage optimal sourcing models (e.g. VMI, Consignment): Analyze + select fitting materials; manage, optimize parameters of existing sourcing models (e.g. lot size, min/max settings).
• Monitor KPI, analyze actual demand, trends, and forecasts, and adjust inventory plans for your parts. Identify forecast and demand plan issues and work closely with the Master Schedulers and Demand Planners to resolve. Analyze relevant KPIs & take corrective action if needed.
• Inventory optimization & planning analysis: Monitor and adjust planning parameters to minimize inventory while providing high levels of service given lead time and reliability of supplier. Investigate causes of slow-moving inventory, implement preventative action, and dispose of obsolete inventory in a cost-effective manner.
• Ensure optimal parameter settings for your parts when issuing orders, including correct pricing, optimal safety stock settings, replenishment parameters, lot size, returnable packaging etc. to obtain optimum price breaks & minimal set up costs while maintaining acceptable inventory levels.
• Lead or co-lead & drive process improvement projects at your supplier base, e.g. technical change, phase in/phase-out, KPI performance optimization or on department level regarding digitalization (AI, RPA) or improvement of operative purchasing process, always with a view on the End-to-End (E2E) optimum.

What You Need To Make Real What Matters.

• Bachelor or Master's degree preferably in business administration, industrial engineering or logistics.
• Minimum of 3-5 additional years of professional experience in Materials Planning and Execution.
• Very good proficiency English and Romanian (spoken & written) is an absolute must to this role since you work in an international environment. Proficiency of German is a big benefit.
• A very good understanding of SAP R/3 or SAP S4 (MM module) and openness to AI-driven or RPA-optimized planning tools.
• Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and basic knowledge of LEAN manufacturing processes / Value stream optimization.
• Good MS Office experience, including excellent spreadsheet skills.
• Basic knowledge of project management, having at least partially managed smaller projects
• Proven analytical and organizational ability.
• Highly analytical with persuasive abilities.
• Able to work autonomously and be a proactive problem solver with effective problem identification and solution skills, including ability to lead smaller process improvement projects.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Personally, you are a great in teamwork and putting things into practice.
• Innovations (digitalization, data analytics, process improvements) are your passion and you also drive them forward independently.
• 2-3 business trips per year to Germany are not a problem for you.

What We Offer.

• Work focus in Oradea.
• In addition to exciting work opportunities, we offer a wide range of benefits and place special emphasis on a healthy work-life balance. Continuous learning and development of our employees is important to us - we believe this is key to our success.