Procurement Specialist Projects (m/f/d)

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Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH is an innovative, fast-growing company in the field of lithium extraction and renewable energy. With our lithium production facility, we make a decisive contribution to the decarbonization of European industry and to securing a lithium supply in Europe.
Join our dedicated team and help turn our vision of a climate-neutral future into reality.

For our dynamic and ambitious team in Karlsruhe , we are looking for you to join us full-time (40 hours per week) as a Procurement Specialist Projects (m/f/d) .

Your mission

• You convert purchase requisitions into purchase orders, ensuring cost, schedule, and quality objectives are met—including delivery tracking and handling of complaints.
• You review offers, request quotations, and actively negotiate with suppliers to continuously optimize terms, pricing, and sourcing strategies.
• You build and maintain sustainable supplier relationships, including conducting annual supplier reviews to ensure high delivery performance.
• You are responsible for supplier and commodity group management, as well as researching, evaluating, and selecting potential new suppliers.
• You identify risks and issues at an early stage and work closely with suppliers and internal project teams on sustainable solutions, escalating in a timely manner when necessary.
• You support contract and price negotiations and take responsibility for process-related topics, as well as contributing to cross-functional projects.

Your profile

• You have completed a commercial or technical education or possess a comparable relevant professional background.
• You bring initial practical experience in procurement or expediting, ideally in an engineering-related industry such as plant engineering or construction.
• You are confident working with SAP and routinely use systems to manage procurement-related processes.
• You communicate fluently and confidently in both German and English—both written and spoken.
• You have a strong affinity for numbers and use them to evaluate offers and commercial terms.
• You are a strong communicator with the ability to handle conflict effectively and assert the company’s interests confidently in negotiations with suppliers.

We offer

• 30 days of annual leave (based on a 5-day workweek), plus time off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
• Company pension scheme.
• Sports and leisure activities, including EGYM Wellpass with an employee contribution of €15.00 (incl. VAT) per month, regular company events, and after-work sports groups.
• Our onboarding program, "Vulcan Starter Day", which includes a site tour to our power plant.
• Through INSITE's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) , you have access to confidential and free support at any time, helping you maintain well-being both at work and in everyday life.
• Corporate Benefits platform with a wide range of attractive discounts.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Interested?

Simply send us your CV via the application form and tell us why you would like to become part of Vulcan. If you have any questions, please contact Josefa Eickershoff (Talent Acquisition Specialist) at [email protected] .

About us

At Vulcan, we are united by the idea of a more sustainable and independent supply of energy and raw materials for Europe. We are pioneers in the field of CO2-neutral lithium extraction using a direct lithium extraction process and have developed an innovative and forward-looking technology for this purpose. We bring together talents and experts from over 40 nations and work passionately on the planning and construction of geothermal and lithium extraction plants, which we will operate ourselves in order to accelerate the climate-neutral mobility and energy industry. With companies such as Stellantis and Renault, we already have strong partners who are supporting us on our way to becoming a market leader.