Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Köln, NRW, Germany
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
As a strategic buyer (m/f/d), you play a key role in shaping our procurement strategy for prescription drugs (RX). You conduct important negotiations, optimize conditions and build long-term partnerships with leading manufacturers and suppliers in the industry.
Responsibilities
About your tasks
- Develop and implement purchasing strategies successfully.
- Conduct annual and condition negotiations with manufacturers - with a particular focus on central KPIs such as purchasing discounts, bonuses and payment conditions.
- Analyze and optimize KPI-based control variables such as margin, sales development, delivery performance and sales dynamics.
- Identify growth and margin potential in the product range and align these with company goals.
- Work closely with Retail Media, Category Management and Demand & Supply to derive and implement joint measures.
- Observe and analyze market and competitive developments as a basis for strategic decisions.
- Build sustainable, collaborative relationships with manufacturers and maintain them continuously.
Requirements
About your profile
- Completed studies in the commercial field or comparable commercial training.
- Several years of experience in strategic purchasing, ideally in the RX, OTC/Free Choice or FMCG (Health & Beauty) sectors.
- Persuasiveness and well-founded experience in price and condition negotiations with manufacturers.
- Strong analytical skills in dealing with key figures and reports – combined with a pragmatic approach.
- Confident use of Excel and PowerPoint.
- Good knowledge of spoken and written English.
Benefits
About your benefits
In order to best support you with your individual needs - be it leading a healthy life, having enough time for your family or further developing your skills - we offer you a variety of different, location-specific advantages:
- Personal development: We promote and support your individual development through various internal and external training courses.
- Home office: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange your work location flexibly - even up to 20 days a year from anywhere within the EU.
- Company pension plan: We offer you a company pension plan and provide you with an external consultant to provide you with the best possible information and support.
- Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from nilo psychologists if you feel overwhelmed in your private or professional life - anonymously and free of charge.
- Redcare Events: We strengthen team spirit through creative team events and celebrate our successes together at regular parties.
- Mobility: We provide you with a fully financed Germany ticket that you can use at any time.
- Sports: Stay healthy. Benefit from an M membership package at the Urban Sports Club and take advantage of a huge range of sports options.
About the Company
About Redcare Pharmacy
As Europe's leading online pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by our dedicated teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a pleasant and cooperative working environment in which every employee feels comfortable and enjoys contributing to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you are looking for a career with meaning that aligns with your values, join our team and start your #Redcareer today.
- Role:
- Strategischer Einkäufer RX (m/w/d)
- Industry Type:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Job Type:
- Full-Time
Company profile
Redcare Pharmacy
redcare-pharmacy.comRedcare Pharmacy N.V., known until 2023 as Shop Apotheke Europe, is a publicly listed mail-order pharmacy retailer headquartered in Sevenum, Netherlands. It sells over-the-counter and prescription drugs, nutritional supplements, and beauty and health products online, and describes itself as Europe's No.1 e-pharmacy. The company is active in Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with locations in Sevenum, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Warsaw, Milan, Lille, Eindhoven and Tongeren.
- Company Size
- 1,000 - 5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Sevenum, Netherlands
- Founded
- 2001
- Funding Stage
- Public