Strategic purchaser: you see what’ll count tomorrow.
Open, innovative, pragmatic. That’s how you approach procurement. You create new things by enabling sustainable mobility solutions. You decide today what will be important years down the line.
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As a strategic purchaser, you are passionate about identifying the potentials in strategic procurement, playing an active role in shaping markets and creating real added value through smart analysis and strong partnerships. The combination of figures, negotiation skills and long-term strategy inspires and motivates me every day.
A feel for the needs of users, optimal solutions for SBB.
Through close dialogue with internal buyers, you ensure that your decisions are strategically sound and align with the specific requirements of the company. With your feel for the changing times, you identify market trends, innovations and opportunities at an early stage – and use them in a targeted way to develop procurement with an eye to the future.
The right approach and management is crucial.
You take the lead and manage the procurement process. You ensure that implementation is legally compliant, transparent and efficient. Together with your user, you create the requirements specification and manage the procurement process through to the contract conclusion. You are responsible for supplier management.
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Tender management with a touch of humour and a lot of heart, leads an energetic and active lifestyle.
As a strategic purchaser, you have completed basic technical or commercial training with further training in purchasing or supply chain management or a completed degree. You are also qualified as a Certified Purchasing Specialist or have another, equivalent qualification. Your written and spoken German is impeccable; you also have very good knowledge of English and French.
Your analytical and conceptual thinking, structured and process-orientated working and enthusiasm for IT will lead to successful negotiations. Because preparing and conducting negotiations professionally is the key to your success. Your good knowledge of methods will also help you when procuring. Experience in public procurement (under BöB/VöB Acts) completes your profile.
As a strategic purchaser, you can also follow internal training programmes, such as procurement modules at the SBB Academy. We are also involved in training at universities of applied sciences (e.g. CAS in the areas of supply chain, logistics etc.).
Strategic purchasers master the challenge of long-term planning in a mobility sector in continuous transformation. To take the initiative and go for targeted changes, you need to be resilient and passionately committed to the subject of procurement.
You work independently but are also often in contact with SBB Corporate Law. If you have questions about public procurement, lawful tendering or fulfilling the legal stipulations for processes, the Corporate Law service is available to help.
We promote modern ways of working. Mobile working means being able to work outside the SBB workplace. You can work at home, on the move, when visiting customers or elsewhere within and outside of SBB.
As a strategic purchaser, you work in the office from Monday to Friday or from home if the nature of your work permits. But more or less one day a month you are on the move as you go to visit your customers. You also enjoy travelling within Switzerland (10-20%), and it makes your working life even more exciting and varied.
