General & Technology Buyer (F/m/d)

**Learn. Develop. Grow. But always: Share value**:
Join our international team that drives positive change, united by a spirit of openness and curiosity. We empower you to have an impact and to grow - personally and professionally. With us, you work at the heart of financial systems and evolve the way markets operate. We’re excited about the future because we are the ones shaping it. Let´s do this together by sharing value

**Who we are**:
Tracing its origins to 1585, Deutsche Börse Group has become one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. In this role, we provide investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. What’s your part in all this? With your commitment you contribute to the success of our unique business model: offering a wide range of products, services and technologies for security, transparency and integrity on the markets. By creating trust in the markets of today and tomorrow we foster growth and contribute to the prosperity of future generations.

Luxembourg

**Your career at Deutsche Börse Group**:
**Your area of work**:
The aim of the Corporate Purchasing function is to efficiently organise the sourcing process within the Deutsche Börse Group, and to ensure the supply of materials and services. In addition to identify potential innovation within the relationship between internal customers and the market partners and to take advantage of procurement synergies.

In this new vital role of “General and Technology** **Buyer”, you will support Procurement in the development of internal client and external supplier relationships. You will control the operational purchasing processes and report the results. You will interface and support your colleagues in the department and subsidiaries of the Deutsche Börse Group and support the development and optimisation of tools, processes, standards and working methods according to the requirements of the purchasing policy. You will be required to remain compliant at all times with both the purchasing manual and the purchasing policy.

Your analytical thinking and your communicative skills should assist you in entering into supplier discussions and internal stakeholder discussions with confidence. You should enjoy working in a dynamic environment and be self-motivated and result driven. Your communication skills and commercial knowledge should assist you as a General and Technology Buyer.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Process and support of purchase orders in line with the purchasing manual.
- Ability to lead request for proposals.
- Negotiation of commercials within a deal.
- Acting as a procurement representative for new/existing Procurement Projects
- Continuous optimisation and further development of the international supplier portfolio and second source activities to secure Deutsche Börse Group's market position.
- Support and involvement in high-quality long-term purchasing strategies.
- Maintaining compliance with standard policies and procedures in scope
- Translating analytical results into meaningful detailed, and robust actionable recommendations to the business

**Your profile**:

- Displaying a deep knowledge and experience (min 5 years) in leading significant programs, workstreams, or functions in the purchasing tools Ariba.
- Having experience in working with key stakeholders from procurement, data protection, internal audit, information security, legal, and compliance teams.
- Demonstrating exemplary relationship and stakeholder management skills.
- Developing programs for execution across large and complex organisations while supervising teams to execute against the overall strategy.
- Using effective verbal and written communications, comfortable engaging with internal and external stakeholders up to the executive level.
- Providing timely escalations if required.
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skill sets and having a proven ability to lead, influence, and motivate others
- You should be fluent in both the English language, and German language.

**Why Deutsche Börse Group?**:
**Mobility**:
We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

**Work environment**:
Collaboration, communication, or deep focus - in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

**Health and wellbeing**:
We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

**Financial stability**:
We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

**Hybrid work**:
Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs an