Project Buyer (m/w/d) - Product Line Detect

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Would you like to shape the future of intelligent mobility together with us? Become part of our VALEO team and revolutionize the experience of autonomous and connected driving.

We are looking for YOU as  Project Buyer (m/f/d) - Product Line Detect for our location in Bietigheim.

These challenges await you: 

• Lead Crisis management task Force meetings
• Establish tracking systems for component lead times and geopolitical risks to forecast supply shortages.
• Publish monthly Supply Chain Risk Dashboards to give leadership complete visibility into potential material bottlenecks.
• Prepare standardized " Customer Approval & Cost Recovery" to pass on premium expenses
• Define and execute qualification plans for alternative component sources to establish dual-sourcing across all critical lines. 
• Formulate and enforce formal supplier charge-back claims to recover direct and indirect financial damages (line stoppages, penalties) caused by supplier failures.

You inspire us with that:

• A degree in business administration or industrial engineering with a strong technical understanding, or equivalent business knowledge, or comparable training
• Several years of professional experience in purchasing
• Assertiveness, strong negotiation skills, a confident demeanor, determination, and openness
• Analytical thinking, initiative, and flexibility
• Business-level English proficiency

Why Valeo:

At VALEO, we firmly believe that great technologies are born out of passion.

• 💶 Compensation package. Performance-related salary components and company pension scheme (allowance).
• 💹 Career development. Scope to develop your own ideas as well as professional and personal development opportunities worldwide.
• 💚 Benefits. Allowances for sports, health, pension scheme, canteen, JobRad,  free employee parking spaces, regular employee events and social support for a family-friendly environment.
• 🌎 Flexibility. Working models that harmonize your professional and private life.
• 🍀Work environment. Flat hierarchies and modern working methods provide you with an innovative working environment.
• 🚙 The future. We work together on the mobility trends of tomorrow.

Good to know:

• Your contact person: Julia Mittelmaier / Julia.Mittelmaier@valeo.com
• We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds as well as from people with disabilities.
• For data protection reasons, please submit your application documents exclusively online via the job portal on our website

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Job:

Project Buyer

Organization:

Projects Purchasing

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-09-09

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com