Strategic Buyer Indirect Procurement

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY. Bringing out the best in people As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us. Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to: Develop faster – with our commitment to the best professional development. Perform better – as part of a high-performance, empowering culture. Shape an industry – with a market leader that continues to drive innovation. Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide. Strategic Buyer Indirect Procurement (m/f/d) For our Indirect global Procurement team we are looking for a Strategic Buyer. This role will be r esponsible to support multiple Indirect categories/projects for specific Sites in a Region cross functionally and collaborating with different functions or departments. Partners with Regional and Global category management to ensure a successful implementation of global or regional led strategies and drive compliance to preferred supply base and purchasing channels. The role is responsible to ensure and continuously improve costs, quality and service level / delivery for all local deliverables in multiple categories. Can be based in Italy (Badia Polesine – RO) or in Germany (Bensheim, Hanau o Munich). Responsibilities Support in implementing global and regional category strategies, projects, objectives, processes, methods and policies across the sites Identify savings potentials not only, but especially for site specific requirements; run Procurement initiatives for those potentials and support the forecasting and savings reporting for the site. Manage local (site specific), day-to-day spend as it comes to requests up to $250k (one-time or annually). Above $250k Strategic Buyer will align with Regional Sourcing Leader for guidance. Responsible for supplier relationships at the local level in cooperation with the regional and global procurement teams. Run RFx, Supplier negotiations Requirements Master Degree in Economics, Business Engineering or related fields Experience in indirect procurement Ability to identify and lead cost improvement initiatives Change management – leading changes regional / locally Analytical, business finance capability technical / industry knowledge. Independent, structured, target and result-oriented working method Assertiveness and ambition to solve demanding tasks Results oriented, able to reach goals under complex environment Independent, structured, target and result-oriented working method Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona. If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to careers@dentsplysirona.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.