Senior Purchasing Manager

FINN makes mobility fun and sustainable. Offering convenient and flexible car subscriptions, we bring a true e-commerce experience to car ownership and offset all CO2 emissions along the way. Join our fast-growing scale-up to build the most popular car subscription platform in Europe and the USA. We work with the best car brands in the world and have raised €140m in equity by leading global investors.<br/>Your Role As Senior Purchasing Manager, you source vehicles from and build successful co-operations with the most renowned OEMs, maintain and deepen existing relationships and drive FINN's ambitious growth plans. You take full ownership in becoming a powerful partner for OEMs in the emerging mobility market of car subscriptions. By prioritizing data and KPIs, you make informed decisions to secure major deals, actively contributing to FINN’s success.  <h3>Your Benefits</h3> <ul> <li>You are part of the Munich based team with flexibility to work up to 50% remotely from home anywhere within Germany.</li><li>In addition to an excellent fixed salary, you will be granted virtual company shares.</li><li>With massive growth potential, FINN allows you to quickly develop and succeed in a highly motivating startup environment with purposeful challenges in cross-functional teams. Also, a 3,000€ annual development budget will help you to level up your skills.</li><li>You want to drive your own car with FINN? – Get one with our employee discount program.</li><li>Whether with sports membership, mental health support or a company pension plan - we take care of your well-being.</li></ul> <h3>Your Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Develop strong and sustainable partnerships: With your open, convincing and trusting personality you build and deepen our relationships with leading OEMs as well as international dealership groups. These relationships enable you to secure first-in-line access to spot deals and other benefits for FINN.</li><li>Plan and ensure an attractive FINN fleet: You collaborate closely with our data team and get insights into demand and supply planning. Based on this data, you build up a winning strategy on how to partner up with our suppliers and secure an attractive fleet for our customers. </li><li>Negotiate and close extraordinary deals: You analyze and evaluate offers and negotiate contracts to get the best deal to enable the most profitable pricing of our Fleet. You create legally binding sourcing contracts to record the results of successful negotiations, specify processes and procedures and minimize risks.</li></ul> <h3>Your Profile</h3> <ul> <li>Graduated with a Bachelors or Masters degree in business administration, industrial engineering or similar.</li><li>4+ years of relevant experience, ideally in a fast-paced environment like a startup or a strategy consulting firm. Experience in purchasing or sales as well as experience in the automotive industry is a plus. </li><li>Communicative character who knows how to eloquently excite others for their ideas and builds relationships easily. </li><li>Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills alongside experience in handling contracts and a good legal understanding.</li><li>Deep national as well as advanced continental market knowledge with regards to automotive sales, its value chain and residual value development.</li><li>Structured and motivated to optimize established processes on a daily basis; combining strong solution finding abilities with new, creative approaches on how to overcome challenges.</li><li>Highly analytical with a data-driven  mindset and passion to work with (new) IT tools with a natural technical understanding.</li><li>Fluent in German and English.</li></ul>Interested? <br/>Please upload your CV online. Paul and Paula are looking forward to your application!<br/>Equal Opportunities for Everyone<br/>FINN is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.