Purchasing Manager

Overview

Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high performance scientific instruments and high value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrialapplications. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. Today, worldwide more than11,000 employees are working on this permanent challenge at over 90 locations. Bruker continues to build upon its extensive range of products and solutions, its broad base of installed systems and a strong reputation among its customers. Being one of the world's leading analytical instrumentation companies, Bruker is strongly committed to further fully meet its customers’ needs as well as to continue to develop state-of-the-art technologies and innovative solutions for today's analytical questions.

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Qualifications

Education and/or Experience requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, engineering, business, or related field (Engineering strongly preferred) • Minimum 12 years’ experience in manufacturing environment, including 10 years in purchasing or supply chain • Minimum of 5 years of strategic supplier sourcing analyses and execution • APICS or CPM Certification strongly preferred • Strong working proficiency with Microsoft Office, including expert level functionality with Excel\ • Minimum 3 years’ experience working within and between ERP systems (SAP preferred), and analytics software(PowerBI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud, etc.) • Knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and thefactors that differentiate them in the marke • Strong technical and business knowledge of, and experience in buying and sourcing in the segment served (i.e.,electrical commodities / machined parts, sheet metal, mechanical assemblies, optical components andassemblies, plastics, and ceramics)

Responsibilities

The Commodity Manager is responsible for the development, execution, and management of commodity strategies along with the associated global sourcing for commodities, goods and services to support our manufacturing and business operations. This position supervises a team of buyers to identify, qualify and manage a global supply base to provide the team’s assigned commodities.