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Magna

Automotive components and contract manufacturing provider

Project Buyer & Coordinator

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeVeitsbronn, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong communication and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a structured, solution-oriented way and to implement decisions effectively.
  • Ability to coordinate teams and advance decisions purposefully.
  • Entrepreneurial thinking, cost awareness, and a strong understanding of risks and opportunities.
  • Very good spoken and written German and English.
  • Several years of experience in strategic purchasing, project purchasing, or investment purchasing.
  • Experience leading price, contract, and commercial-terms negotiations with national and international suppliers.
  • Knowledge of modern procurement processes and supplier, risk, and project management.
  • Understanding of technical, commercial, and strategic relationships.
  • Experience working across departments in a coordinating capacity.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the functional interface among purchasing, development, production, and suppliers, supporting projects from initial concept through production launch.
  • Take functional responsibility in purchasing and advance investment and procurement projects to enable successful, cost-effective project execution.
  • Provide functional leadership for and develop the operational and strategic purchasing team.
  • Direct, prioritize, and coordinate all purchasing activities and ensure efficient processes and standards.
  • Support development, customer, and industrialization projects throughout the procurement process.
  • Ensure material availability for prototypes, samples, and production launches.
  • Procure capital goods, including machinery, equipment, tools, software, and technical facilities.
  • Conduct tenders and select, assess, and develop suitable suppliers.
  • Lead price, contract, and commercial-terms negotiations independently to achieve sustainable cost benefits.
  • Analyze quotations, project costs, and procurement costs, and develop measures to optimize costs and minimize risks.

Desired Qualifications

  • A successfully completed degree in business administration, industrial engineering/business engineering, supply chain management, or a comparable qualification.
  • Experience in the automotive industry.

About the Company

Magna

Automotive components and contract manufacturing provider

Magna is a global mobility technology company and one of the world's largest automotive suppliers. It designs, manufactures, and integrates components and systems such as body exteriors, powertrains, seating, and ADAS, and also provides complete vehicle engineering and contract manufacturing services. Its products are developed in 338 plants across 28 countries, enabling automakers to outsource from individual parts to full vehicle assembly and to adopt both traditional and electric powertrains in a single facility. Magna's goal is to be a trusted, one-stop partner that accelerates electrification and advanced mobility through its integrated manufacturing and engineering capabilities.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Aurora, Canada
Founded
1957

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