Leiter Einkauf (m/w/d)

Your Responsibilities

• Lead procurement across the German locations of our group – from strategy through supplier and contract management to operational implementation
• Report directly to the COO and manage your team while developing structures and processes to ensure supply security and sustainable cost efficiency

People Management

• Manage personnel responsibility for a 7-person team including goal-setting, annual appraisals, and professional and personal development

Strategic & Cross-Site Leadership

• Lead cross-site procurement teams on global sourcing strategies (including Slovakia) and build efficient interfaces between headquarters and local units
• Further develop group-wide sourcing strategy and increase efficiency of the procurement organisation while considering risk and compliance requirements
• Actively shape Design-to-Cost and Target-Costing approaches in product development (Early Supplier Involvement, Value Engineering, Should-Cost analyses)

End-to-End Procurement Process

• Own the complete procurement process from needs assessment through delivery, focusing on supply security, inventory levels and capital commitment
• Define technical components in close coordination with development and product management to ensure cost-efficient product creation
• Manage inventory and stock strategy in coordination with production and sales

Supplier & Contract Management

• Lead price and contract negotiations nationally and internationally, conclude framework agreements and further develop suppliers (including audits and performance reviews)

Systems & Data

• Co-shape the further development of ERP and data landscape in procurement (e.g. MS Dynamics 365, BI, AI tools)
• Demonstrate interest in AI-enabled procurement applications (e.g. spend analyses, supplier research, tender documents) and integrate these pragmatically into daily work

Performance Management

• Own a transparent KPI set (defined jointly) by which success in the role is measured – e.g. realised savings (TCO), delivery reliability/capability, inventory and working capital effects, supplier performance, and contract and compliance rate

What You Bring

• Completed degree in industrial engineering, supply chain management, mechanical engineering or comparable qualification
• Several years of professional and management experience in strategic and operational procurement, ideally in a technical environment
• Proven management experience and ability to motivate and develop employees
• Strategic thinking combined with hands-on mentality and ability to set clear priorities operationally (e.g. order management, master data maintenance, complaints handling)
• Secure communication in German and English for convincing collaboration with team and external partners
• Confident use of ERP/SRM systems (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics 365 or similar) and high numeracy skills to identify savings and optimisation potential
• Willingness to travel up to 20%

Why Join Us

Minitube means your impact, not just a number. We don't simply offer you a new position – we provide the space for you to flourish. Minitube stands for an environment where ambition meets humanity: there is no dog-eat-dog mentality here, but a management culture based on synergy, trust and shared success.

You are not an administrator for us, but a shaper. You take on real responsibility, act entrepreneurially and lead your team with foresight. Show us what you can do and shape the future with us. Ready to lead the scale? Your place is here.

What Makes Us Special

• Twice awarded: one of the top 20 family-friendly employers in Bavaria
• Flexible working hours make it easy to balance family and career
• Secure job in a stably growing family business
• Structured onboarding programme
• Gym studio subsidy
• JobRad
• Company health insurance supplement
• Smart additional offers for occupational pension provision and loss of earnings insurance
• Internal and external training offers
• Great discounts through Corporate Benefits
• Plenty of coffee and the best colleagues in the world
• Collegial exchange in common rooms and terraces, at the MiniBar and at after-work parties, summer festival and Christmas party

About Us

As a family-run business, we look back with pride on a company history of over 50 years. Since 1970, we have set standards in reproductive technology for modern livestock farming with our headquarters in Tiefenbach near Landshut in Lower Bavaria. Since 2021, we have also been active in the field of reproductive medicine in the human medical market.

With offices in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, China, India, Middle East, Slovakia and Spain, we are more than 400 colleagues who treat each other with respect and where the person is always at the centre.

We combine tradition and modernity by building on what has proven itself, reinterpreting it and acting with a forward-looking perspective. We are aware of our responsibility, think sustainably and work together with our customers to contribute to sustainable production of healthy and affordable food.

Our customers appreciate our flexible and solution-oriented service, our commitment and passion for laboratory automation. Thanks to a remarkable team spirit and committed participation of all team members, we can today count ourselves among the world market leaders in our field. And we are very proud of that!