Senior Director Local Procurement

As our new
**Senior Director of Local Procurement **, you will be responsible for not only driving our growth, but also managing best practices, identifying cost savings opportunities, and leading cross-functional teams to execute on procurement initiatives. You will also be responsible for managing relationships with key suppliers and vendors to ensure we receive the best prices and terms.

**What You Will Do**
- **Managerial responsibility**: Take over planning, optimizing and controlling the results from materials & services to increase the EBIT in the area of responsibility
- **Local procurement strategies (and project support)**: Initiate procurement processes, pinpoint approaches to problem-solving integration of various objectives to secure local objectives
- **Supplier management**
Source, select, evaluate, and develop key local suppliers on a cross-functional team basis to ensure the highest level of demand coverage and to achieve common cost objectives from the outset
- **Planning and controlling**
Derive team/individual goals (budget, target/actual) from plant goals under expected market conditions to measure, monitor, report, and coach overall results based on cross-functional teams, procurement department, and employees
- **Commercial responsibility**
Perform commercial tasks, in particular ensuring the ordering process and contractual agreements with suppliers within the framework of applicable laws and regulations, in order to ensure economic success, efficient operation and compliance
- **Risk management and environment protection in procurement**
Evaluate the particular risks and market conditions in the course of business in order to avoid possible losses or prevent problems by taking appropriate measures
- **Human Resources Management**: Select, manage, assess and promote our employees to ensure long-term corporate success

As

**Who You Are**

An experienced Procurement Expert With:

- A **technical **, **commercial **or **economic-technical **oriented **degree **such as **Business Administration **or **Industrial Engineering **with focus on **Procurement **/ **Logistics **/ **Supply **Chain Management**:

- At least **8+ years of working experience **within **procurement **activities **incl. **managerial experience **such as in **leading **and **developing teams**:

- **Proven Procurement expertise **in the respective categories such as **Production **, **Quality **and / or **Logistics**:

- Demonstrated **strategic sourcing skills **, **particularly negotiation **, **commercial agreements **and **supplier relationship management skills**:

- Ability to build **sustainable high-level relationships **both **internally **and **externally **and influence others
- Strong **multi-cultural **and **interpersonal skills **including **cross-functional teamwork**:

- Intermediate knowledge of the **semiconductor **industry and its customers
- Strong **communication skills **in **German **and **English**

The role of
**Senior**
**Director Local Procurement **is a position of trust at Infineon Technologies AG. For this reason, Infineon is required under the German Corporate Control and Transparency Act (KonTraG) to identify and minimize potential human risks to avert damage to the company.

The data and findings acquired for and during these checks will be used and stored exclusively to confirm your details. In the event of non-recruitment, the data collected will be deleted six months after receipt of the rejection notice.

More than 5.000 people work at five different sites in Austria.

**Part of your life. Part of tomorrow.**

Infineon is a world leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer, and greener. Our solutions for efficient energy management, smart mobility, and secure, seamless communications link the real and the digital world

At
**Infineon in Villach **you shape the technologies of tomorrow and work in an international environment with more than 3700 colleagues from over 65 nations. Your personal contribution will be valued and appreciated as the cornerstones of our success. And all that in beautiful surroundings which guarantee a high quality of life.

The
**City of Villach **is located in the center of Carinthia, Austria’s southernmost province, in close proximity to the Italian and Slovenian border. Living in Austria has many social, health-care-related and economic perks. The country’s social and health care system is among the best in the world and for decades numerous international surveys have singled out Austria as a particularly safe and wealthy country with a high quality of life. Villach itself benefits from its status as a “small town”, offering everyday living at affordable prices in an outstanding setting.
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