Senior IT Buyer

Company Description

The Swatch Group is the world's largest watch manufacturer with a portfolio of 16 brands, including Omega, Longines, Tissot, and the multi‑brand retail companies Tourbillon and Hour Passion. Swatch Group Services Ltd offers a unique ecosystem where people can accomplish their goals and achieve their aspirations.

In this role, you will manage the complete IT spend and support & advise our IT managers as a Procurement Specialist, helping them with their IT challenges. Your mission is to build a great work environment, solve challenges with professionalism, and contribute to our journey of becoming a World Class Procurement organization.

• Create Sourcing Strategies for our Key IT categories
• Lead/organize negotiation teams; define negotiation roadmaps
• Support the IT vendor (supplier) relationship management
• Coordinate between Group IT, SG companies, SG Legal department, SG Controlling department, SG Procurement department and IT‑suppliers

At The Swatch Group Services, we value fresh ideas, especially in areas like stakeholder engagement, supplier management, and procurement process optimisation, to keep improving our quality standards and processes.

• Minimum of 5 years of IT Procurement experience
• You are a natural networker, collaborate efficiently with everybody, and build a trustful relationship at all levels, being regarded as a trusted partner
• You have strong experience in creating sourcing strategies and executing negotiations with IT suppliers
• You have excellent consultative and client‑service skills with the ability to effectively influence and manage key relationships
• Autonomous and self‑motivated, with initiative and the ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency
• You are curious and highly organised: you have a very structured way of working, being able to prioritise a variety of complex tasks and complete them diligently

• Fluent in English
• French and German are an advantage

Chemin du Long‑Champ / Längfeldweg 119, 2504 Biel/Bienne, Suisse (Bern)

The Swatch Group Services SA Chemin du Long‑Champ 119 CH-2504 Bienne Suisse