Senior Strategic Buyer

🕒 June 24

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AlphaPet Ventures GmbH

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201 - 500 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Marketing

AlphaPet Ventures GmbH is a leading digital brand platform for premium pet food in Europe. The company focuses on establishing healthy pet nutrition in the mainstream through a multi-channel distribution strategy. It has a balanced approach with approximately 50% direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales and 50% through business-to-business (B2B) partnerships. With over 10 years of expertise in digital brand building, AlphaPet carries a portfolio of premium brands and employs a scalable platform for sustainable growth. The company successfully applies a Buy & Build strategy to expand its market presence.

📋 Description

• Responsibility for strategically relevant categories and suppliers • Actively mitigate price increases • Achieve real cost savings • Data-driven and AI-supported procurement • Independent management of defined suppliers and categories • Build and manage supplier scorecards (delivery reliability, quality, costs) • Run structured tenders/RFQs, negotiate terms and handle renegotiations • Establish and maintain full spend transparency • Benchmarks, price analyses, category-level forecasting, reporting and KPI management vis-à-vis VP and COO • LLM-supported market research and contract review • Automate recurring sourcing workflows and help shape modern, data-driven sourcing methods

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in strategic procurement/sourcing, ideally in FMCG / pet food / food • Independent responsibility for tenders and negotiations in double-digit million-euro volumes • Experience with data-driven sourcing methods and market intelligence • Confidence in dealing with critical suppliers (scale, conflict situations, brand relevance) • AI affinity & data-driven mindset — you use modern data and AI tools natively • Hands-on, assertive, results-oriented • Business fluent in German and English

🏖️ Benefits

• Responsible, exciting and varied tasks with a lot of freedom to shape things in a dynamic company that values flat hierarchies and an open, relaxed working atmosphere with an informal, first-name culture • A friendly, open team of around 340 employees in Munich, Leipzig and Albourne (UK) with several beloved office dogs at our locations • Flexible working hours based on trust, home office options including a financial contribution toward your home office equipment and the possibility to work from abroad for several months • 28 days of vacation plus the option to take up to 20 days of unpaid leave as well as special leave • Various internal & external development opportunities that you can choose independently according to your interests • Various employee discounts — for people and pets! • Regular team, company and family & friends events • Relax in our social area with a foosball table or challenge your colleagues on our cozy sofa area to a Mario Kart battle (or another Nintendo Switch game) • High-quality, fully equipped kitchen where you can cook or bake great cakes • Free: coffee, hot chocolate, tea and other cold soft drinks such as water and juices, as well as fresh fruit, small snacks and a well-stocked candy drawer • EGYM Wellpass membership: With our subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership you get access to thousands of sports and wellness facilities — including gyms, swimming pools, climbing halls, yoga and pilates studios and many other offers • Access to modern AI tools: We provide modern AI tools to help you work more efficiently, develop new ideas and further expand your skills in an ever-changing digital world • Many other great benefits that we will be happy to present to you during the recruitment process