Junior Sourcing Manager (m/w/x)

Trust something new, grow beyond itself and redefine the boundaries of the feasible. That is exactly what our employees can and should live daily. To set the pace with our innovations and make it great. Because there are a lot of fascinating people behind every successful company. ZEISS employees work in an open and modern environment with numerous development and further training opportunities. Our culture is characterized by expert knowledge and team spirit. All this is supported by the special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl-Zeiss Foundation: to advance science and society together.

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Diversity is part of ZEISS. We look forward to your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, world view, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips - work where the morning is created.

About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the heart of any electronically controlled system, they are no longer to think away from our everyday life – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

For the supply chain management in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, we are looking for a ''Sourcing Manager Software Engineering (m/w/x)' at the Jena, Roßdorf or Oberkochen site at the next possible time:

Procurement of specific software solutions, development services, licenses and cloud services.

Price and contract negotiations with national and international partners

Implementation of sourcing requirements in close exchange with the corresponding demand carriers and interfaces

Participation in the creation and implementation of the respective category strategy with the Category Manager

Analysis of the global procurement market, identification of suitable suppliers and evaluation and development of partnerships

Cooperation with development, legal and IT security to ensure quality, compliance and IP protection

Further development of methods and processes for innovative sourcing of software development

a successfully completed study in the fields of business, computer science or commercial-technical training with appropriate additional training

first professional experience in supply chain management, ideally in purchasing software development or services

Analytical thinkability of a structured and independent way of working

SAP knowledge and knowledge about programming and software development

Fun on a mix of routine activities and strategic, innovative activities

Experience in contract negotiation, price negotiation, supplier evaluation and selection

knowledge of German and English

intercultural competence as well as readiness to national and international missions

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