SENIOR IT BUYER

Company description

The Swatch Group is the world's largest watch manufacturer with a portfolio of 16 brands, and Swatch with its 16 individual brands, including Omega, Longines, Tissot, and the multi-brand retail companies Tourbillon and Hour Passion. Swatch Group Services Ltd offers a unique ecosystem where people can accomplish their goals and achieve their aspirations. To reinforce our IT Procurement team in Biel, we're offering an exciting opportunity for a :

SENIOR IT BUYER (100%)

Your role

In this role, you will manage the complete IT spend and support & advices our IT managers as a Procurement Specialist, helping them with their IT challenges. Your mission? Build a great work environment, solve challenges with professionalism, and contribute to our journey of becoming a World Class Procurement organization.

Your responsibilities

• Create Sourcing Strategies for our Key IT categories
• Lead/organize negotiation teams; define negotiation roadmaps
• Support the IT vendor (supplier) relationship management
• Coordinate between Group IT, SG companies, SG Legal department, SG Controlling department, SG Procurement department and IT-suppliers.

Professional requirements

At The Swatch Group Services, we value fresh ideas, especially in areas like stakeholder engagement, supplier management, procurement process optimization, to keep improving our quality standards and processes.

Your Background:

• Minimum of 5 years of IT Procurement experience
• You are a natural networker, collaborate efficiently with everybody and you build a trustful relationship at all levels and be regarded as a trusted partner.
• You have a strong experience in creating sourcing strategies and executing negotiations IT suppliers.
• You have excellent consultative and client service skill with the ability to effectively influence and manage key relationships.
• Autonomous and self-motivated, with initiative and an ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency.
• You are curious as well as highly organized: You have a very structured way of working, being able to prioritize a variety of complex tasks and to complete them diligently.

You're missing one or two skills in the list, yet you're eager to learn?

It's perfectly OK. We like to share.

Languages

Now, in order to blend in, socially and professionally, we certainly recommend the following languages:

• Fluent in English
• French and German as an advantage