Strategic Category Buyer

Functional area:  Purchasing
Country:  Germany
City:  Rheinfelden
Company name:  CVS engineering GmbH
Date of posting:  Jul 9, 2025

Your future job

 

CVS engineering GmbH manufactures compressors and vacuum pumps specifically designed for mobile applications (primarily in trucks, railways, and buses).

 

Our in-house production, equipped with an innovative machine park, 3D measurement technology, and highly automated machining centers, provides us with significant production advantages and flexibility. This enables us to ensure the quality and operational reliability of all components and to respond quickly and individually to nearly all customer requirements.

 

 

Your role

The Strategic Category Buyer  is part of the Procurement team. Primary role is to Lead the Supplier Management to secure QDCP (Quality; Delivery; Cost; Project & Products) performance, continous improvements and active risk management with the Suppliers within responsibility. Develop a high performing, reliable and innovative supplier base. 

 

 

To succeed, you will need

  • You will be point of contact between Atlas Copco and your responsible suppliers 
  • You will proactively work with risks within your supplier base, reduce the number of risk suppliers, set up contingency and risk mitigation plans and build partnership in critical technologies
  • You will realize a yearly cost saving plans according to agreed initiatives
  • You will conduct RFQ, supplier selection and qualification process with a cross functional mindset and long term performance potential in mind
  • You will work in close cooperation with operational buyers, make sure actions are taken immediately in case of deviations, promote initiatives with Supplier for creating a more agile supply chain to optimize stock in days and secure delivery times to our customers
  • You will secure early integration and active involvement of the supplier base in product development to safeguard cost engineering plans and meeting time to market targets

 

In return, we offer you

  • We offer you an exciting role to grow a business withinin a dynamic and agile structure where the focus on customers and results would rythm your journey.
  • An attractive compensation package
  • Predictable and regular working hours
  • 30 days of annual vacation
  • A performance-driven and open corporate culture with a flat hierarchy
  • Independent and varied tasks in a future-oriented and international corporate environment (Atlas Copco Group)
  • Social benefits exceeding statutory requirements (e.g., capital-forming benefits, company accident insurance)
  • A wide range of attractive employee benefits (e.g., corporate benefits, JobRad bike leasing, Volvo employee leasing offers)
  • Free access to beverages and organic fruit
  • Free parking for cars, motorcycles, and bicycles

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