Controller (Purchasing) (All Genders)

Company Description

More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

**Job Description**:
As a **Purchasing Controller**, you support the Purchasing departments in** **billing retrospectively granted supplier conditions & bonuses, ensuring process excellence, driving compliance, and providing guidance with standard reports to contribute to our financial success. As a deeply service-oriented member of the central Purchase Steering department, you will be tasked with owning, maintaining, and controlling essential financial reports, building insights from supplier conditions, and deriving potential for improvement in our daily operations. With your profound experience in purchasing controlling and/or purchasing, you help Vendor Managers and the Management Board execute the company strategy.

**Your responsibilities will be**:

- Maintaining, updating, and developing the central supplier off-invoice condition (volume bonuses, marketing bonuses, promotions, etc.) reporting
- Estimating and tracking expected bonuses for the full year
- Steering of year-end regarding the achievement of bonuses
- Clarifying discrepancies in volumes between zooplus and suppliers for the calculation of bonuses
- Supporting the Purchasing organization and Senior Management in decision-making by providing standard reporting and ensuring process excellence (e.g. retro invoicing)
- Updating inbound conditions reports feeding into other systems
- Ensuring tracking, monitoring, and reporting of the development of all the parts in Supplier conditions
- Designing and implementing projects autonomously in close collaboration with Vendor Management to contribute to efficiency and financial performance
- Developing new processes jointly with BPO and ensuring cross-departmental standards, compliance, and control of such
- Collaborate with Vendor Managers and other stakeholders to develop standards for reporting and act as a solution-oriented sparring partner
- Aim for the best solution for zooplus while communicating and aligning proactively with all relevant stakeholders (Vendor Management, Management Board, BI, Controlling, etc.)
- Champion stakeholders’ enthusiasm for being data-driven and ensure adherence to best practices and knowledge sharing

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. economics, controlling, finance, data analytics, etc.), Master’s preferable with several years working experience in purchasing controlling, preferably in e-commerce companies; background in consulting is a plus
- ** Data-driven** - with your strong analytical and problem-solving skills you derive actionable insights for informed decision-making in the purchasing organization
- ** Digital native** - you possess profound expertise with digital tools (e.g. JIRA, Excel, Tableau, SAP, etc.)
- ** Structured and intellectually curious** - you enjoy working with data and love improving things as a high-performer
- ** Collaborative** - you build and maintain positive relationships with colleagues, and enjoy working cross-functionally with various teams to gather key inputs
- ** Detail-oriented** - you possess strong organizational skills, work precisely, and consistently demonstrate a methodical approach to all your work
- ** Service-oriented** - your proactive attitude and perseverance help you to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, and international environment with varying ad-hoc projects while working autonomously
- ** A critical thinker** - you use logic to synthesize critical information, excel at solving complex problems and identify opportunities
- ** A strong communicator** - you can communicate at all levels with clarity, maturity, and precision both written and verbal.
- ** Reliable **- you are comfortable with deadlines, competing priorities, and ambiguity in outcomes and organizational lines
- Fluent in English, German is a plus

The gross annual salary for this position (38.5 hours/week) is minimum 50,000 EUR. Depending on your qualification and experience we are willing to overpay

Additional Information

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely or face-to-face at the office.

**Our benefits**:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
️ Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
Company mobile phone for work and personal use

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