Technical Procurement Specialist (m/f/d)

As Technical Procurement Specialist at Instagrid you will lead technical procurement processes by providing the best conditions in terms of quality, price, delivery terms, technology, and sustainability. You act as our interface between engineering, procurement, suppliers, and quality to define, negotiate, and award technical concepts or systems towards suppliers as part of our development projects. As technical buyer you ensure cost optimization and cost-down projects through profound application of design-to-cost, target costing, standardization, and cost value engineering methods. By doing so, you are an active part in our product development process and contribute to the adherence of our overall sourcing strategy from engineering phase to series procurement. In your main tasks you will be responsible for

• Performing market and supplier analyses with regard to new technologies and suppliers

• Defining scope and content of technical concepts that are in line with our make-or-buy outsourcing activities

• Accelerating the RFP or RFQ phase through detailed calculation of technical parts and or systems

• Engaging alongside our engineering department with design-to-cost and target costing price benchmarks in early NPI project phases