Junior Managers Program – Purchasing - Supply Chain Management and its digital transformation – Trainee program (F/m/div.)

Company Description

Do you want to turn your ideas into useful and meaningful technologies? Whether in Mobility Solutions, Consumer Goods, Industrial Technology or Energy and Building Technology - with us you will improve the quality of life for people all over the world. Welcome to Bosch.

Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!

Job Description

As a JMP in Procurement, you will take on challenging tasks in strategic and operational purchasing for raw materials, production materials and services.  You will optimize procurement processes and help shape the digital transformation of procurement.

You will spend 12-24 months at various stations in Germany and abroad to expand your professional expertise and better understand the importance of purchasing as a central interface between sales, logistics, controlling and production, develop procurement  strategies, support them with data analyses, prepare complex negotiations and conduct them bilaterally and/or via online auctions, model processes and optimize IT tools.

Together with us, you will lay the foundations for your future as a manager. For us, leadership means continuously advancing yourself and other people, influencing existing processes and thus achieving challenging, entrepreneurial and meaningful goals.

• Flexible starting date all year round and a permanent employment contract
• Design your program with up to 6 stations in different areas. You will change at least one function and one area and get to know the world of digitalization & AI at one of your stops. You will also work at a location abroad.
• You will build up knowledge of purchasing, market know-how and the Bosch organization. This will enable you to help shape the future of procurement and its digital transformation.
• Complement your practical experience with a variety of learning and training methods, for which you have an individual budget
• Benefit from the network and experience of your personal mentor at management level

Qualifications

• Personality: The entrepreneur is in you. You are always looking for new paths and sometimes take a risk. You enjoy inspiring others. You are enthusiastic about purchasing-related topics, such as global market development, negotiation management or supplier management - and also about corresponding digitalization strategies and their implementation. You consider courage, openness, tolerance and mindfulness to be attitudes worth striving for.
  
• Background: You have completed your master's or diploma degree in industrial engineering, business informatics, technical business administration, mechanical engineering, computer science or business administration with above-average grades. You may already have an MBA, PhD or some professional experience.
  
• Experience and know-how: You have at least 3 months of experience abroad and have gained initial practical experience in purchasing or supply chain management and/or in the IT environment. You have a very good command of English and German.

Additional Information

Award Fair Training Program 2024

Our benefits for you:

• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models.
• Health and sports: A wide range of health and sports activities awaits you here.
• Childcare: Use our placement service for childcare offers.
• Employee discounts: Bosch employees benefit from various discounts.
• Freedom for creativity: We offer you freedom for creative work.
• Company social counseling and care: Use our company social counseling on site including the online counseling options as well as our mediation service for care services.

Additional Information

Do you have questions about the application process?
Claudia Mertens-Baaij (Human Resources)
Telephone: 0711 811 7200

The application process for the Junior Managers Program may include audio and video recording.

Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Purchasing