Senior Buyer (m/f/d) - R&D and IT Services

Holon Gmbh

München permanent

Posted: July 8, 2025

Job Description

Your tasks:
You have a passion for shaping the future of autonomous, inclusive and sustainable people transportation and want to take a key role in orchestrating the collaboration between our R&D and external development partners? Then the open position as Senior Buyer R&D and IT Services might be the perfect next step in your personal development journey! We are looking for an experienced purchasing professional who enjoys working in an agile product development cycle and who has the strategic ambition to integrate the most suitable market know-how in the areas of software development & validation services, automotive cloud services, vehicle design services and many more into our business model. In this course you will contribute significantly to the HOLON Purchasing Team’s mission to establish a reliable and resilient partnership ecosystem to contribute to our company's future product design.

The respective scope of responsibility is as follows:

• Creating and owning the supply portfolio strategy in in the field of software development & validation services, automotive cloud services and vehicle design services
• Scouting, selection and implementation of suitable supplier partners based on market analyses and competition benchmarks
• Establishing sustainable and performant supplier relationships fostering reliability and innovation within our vehicle and electronics architecture development cycles
• Managing all procurement related activities in the product development cycle with focus of supplier's contribution to relevant project milestones
• Assessing (commercial, technical & quality) new supplier partners in collaboration with the R&D and Quality teams
• Conducting supplier visits and audits to ensure continuous performance by our partners
• Evaluating supplier offers regarding price, quality, delivery time and risk
• Ensuring timely service performance and supplier deliverables throughout all project phases
• Communication of market trends and purchasing strategies towards various internal stakeholders
• Identifying and implementing cost optimization potentials by implementing suitable development partnership steering models
• Coordinating supplier specific escalations with affected internal stakeholders

Your profile:
• Completed (Master-) studies in one of the fields of Business Administration, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or comparable
• Several years of professional experience in hardware and/or software development services purchasing, preferably in the automotive and/or high-tech electronics industry
• Comprehensive understanding of complex automotive (software) development processes and of strategic requirements towards respective external development partners
• Significant negotiation experience in complex and mile-stone-driven procurement settings in international contexts
• Strong intercultural skills and availability for international and national business trips
• Fluency in English language, further language skills are a plus

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