Senior Buyer (Pharma)

Senior Buyer/Procurement - Maintenance & Facility - Pharma

Experis is currently supporting our globally operating client within the biotech industry with their search for an experienced Senior Buyer with a background in Maintenance and Facility contracts to support their operations at their manufacturing facility in the Solothurn region. This contract role will run a minimum of 6 months.

The role has a myriad of responsibilities including:

• Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials
• Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.
• Develop creative and innovative procurement processes.
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and method.

In addition:

• Build relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure sourcing is aligned with objectives
• Supplier Relationship management

Your specific background:

• Minimum of 10 years of comparable experience
• Minimum of 3 years of project management experience
• Experience in the Pharma industry and knowledge of Facilities and Maintenance business
• You must hold either a Swiss or an EU passport to be considered for this position.
• Fluent English, any other languages are not a prerequisite

If you are immediately available for this exciting project in downtown Zurich, Switzerland, please get in touch directly with Eric Schuster (+41 44 229 9937) or send him your CV and testimonials today through the link in the advert. We can only consider Swiss/EU nationals for this engagement.

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