Operative Buyer - temporary position (9-12 months)

SpotLIGHT of the job

Are you organized, proactive, and motivated to ensure smooth purchasing and material availability? Do you enjoy working with suppliers, data, and internal stakeholders to keep operations running efficiently?

Join us as an Operative Buyer, located in Nis, and take responsibility for day-to-day purchasing operations and supplier coordination. In this role, you will support reliable processes, maintain accurate system data, and contribute to continuous improvement across different activities.

Responsibilities

• Takes responsibility for material availability in allocated designated products and ensures optimized inventory levels. Issues purchase orders for allocated materials and identified requirements through SAP.
• Controls acknowledgment and acceptance of orders and monitors in case of discrepancies. Tracks goods according to upcoming dates and escalates to suppliers when necessary.
• Manages and continuously updates lead times. Communicates and escalates within the Commodity Team in case of irregularities.
• Ensures that quantity requirements are accurate. This can be done via direct operative purchasing planning (MRP) or through close daily interaction with planning functions at the production site.
• Provides support for the implementation and responsibility for executing workflows (e.g., EDI or ActiveAdobe). Optimizes order quantities according to demand situations.
• Defines the ideal order quantity and optimizes value by using the best price breaks where possible. Issues/pulls orders on a regular basis to optimize inventory levels for the respective products.
• Creates and manages forecasts and coordinates with suppliers (ZM_Forecast). Monitors operational purchasing KPIs and ensures continuous supplier performance and inventory level improvement in cooperation with the Commodity Team.
• Prevents shortages through systematic use of systems and tools. Manages shortages if they occur within the commodity team. Monitors the entire order management process and escalates irregularities—analyzes and adjusts lead times when necessary.
• Manages order, invoice, and goods list variances. Clarifies and resolves issues regarding blocked invoices (executes transactions for blocked invoices and clears goods list/invoice accounts).
• Creates and maintains supplier master data in close cooperation with Commodity Management. Maintains material master data, info records, and source lists within assigned commodity responsibility, closely aligned with the Commodity Team.
• Collects long-term supplier declarations and maintains master data annually. Ensures maintenance of master data for new items/suppliers together with Technical Purchasing. 
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Skills & Experience

• Experience in operational purchasing
• Minimum VI level of education, preferably in economics
• English language proficiency
• Knowledge of processes and SAP
• Basic technical skills.
• Basic economic skills
• Proactive and team player

What we offer

• Temporary position (9-12 months)
• Employee well-being and family support programs – private health insurance and various initiatives to support families and parenting.
• Social gatherings and community events – designed to foster connection and collaboration among employees.
• Personal growth - training opportunities accessible internally and externally.

At the Zumtobel Group, we not only understand the power of the visible, but also the invisible. Like light itself, diversity cannot be grasped but it can be perceived. We appreciate the uniqueness of each individual and recognise it as a driver of innovation. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to e.g.: race, colour, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or disabilty.

Ready to be a part of Zumtobel’s growing team? Apply today, we look forward to meeting you!
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Biographies of candidates who will not be contacted, will be stored in our database for the next 12 months from the date of the end of advertisement.