Your Responsibilities
- Obtaining and evaluating quotations, conducting negotiations, and managing terms, conditions, and contracts while ensuring compliance
- Global procurement of goods and services in collaboration with specialist departments and international subsidiaries
- Active international sourcing, including the selection, qualification, and development of suppliers
- Conducting market, demand, and cost analyses, and implementing cost-saving and optimization opportunities
- Coordinating procurement activities across all global purchasing organizations
- Participating in cross-functional projects
- Digitalizing, standardizing, and continuously improving purchasing and import processes in accordance with Kaizen principles
What You Bring
- Several years of professional experience in purchasing, international procurement, and sourcing
- Strong technical understanding
- Excellent negotiation skills, resilience, persistence, and strong communication abilities
- Outstanding organizational skills
- A confident, experienced personality with passion and commitment
- Cost-conscious thinking combined with a strong understanding of processes and project management
- An independent, structured, and solution-oriented approach to work, along with excellent communication skills in German and English; additional languages are an advantage
Do you enjoy taking responsibility, have a service-oriented mindset, and remain calm and constructive even in challenging situations? If you can answer yes to these questions and have the relevant experience and qualifications, we look forward to receiving your application.
What We Offer
We offer the freedom to shape your own area of responsibility, along with a diverse and challenging role in a dynamic, international environment. You can expect modern workplace facilities, an open-door culture, flat hierarchies, free parking, an on-site fitness room, fresh fruit, coffee and water, subsidized lunches, employee events, and much more. We are committed to fair pay and equal opportunities.
Your Workplace
You will work at the Katadyn Group headquarters in Kemptthal, near Winterthur, Switzerland. This is where products for the Katadyn and Optimus brands are developed, tested, and largely manufactured.
Does this sound like the right opportunity for you? We look forward to receiving your application by email.
Contact: Jasmine Genc, personal@katadyn.ch
Only direct applications will be considered.
About Katadyn Group
Founded in Switzerland in 1928, Katadyn is a leading global Swiss equipment brand for specialists who demand ultimate mission performance when failure is not an option. Katadyn develops water treatment, nutrition, and cooking solutions engineered to perform in the world's most demanding conditions.
From humanitarian missions, disaster relief, and professional operations to outdoor and expedition adventures, Katadyn equips people with water they can trust, nutrition that fuels performance, and equipment that delivers when it matters most.
Headquartered in Kemptthal, near Zurich, the Katadyn Group employs over 250 people across locations in Europe, Asia, and North America.
