As a predominantly nationally active family business with 75 employees, we have been a reliable supplier to the timber industry and timber trade for more than 116 years. Our customer proximity and our good service are highly valued by our customers. We want to remain at the forefront in the future: with top quality and outstanding service.

As a „roundwood buyer," you serve as the key link between the forestry sector, private forest owners, and the timber industry (sawmill industry).

They are responsible for the sustainable procurement of logs and coordinate the entire supply chain.

An Overview of Your Responsibilities

• You will independently source roundwood suppliers, establish new supply relationships, and unlock growth potential.
• They negotiate supply contracts with a strategic understanding of market conditions, quality, and costs.
• You manage wood procurement, scheduling, and logistics—key factors in the success of our roundwood supply.
• They ensure delivery standards and quality control, and oversee the entire processing chain through to delivery at the sawmill.

Your Responsibilities in Detail

• Posting roundwood invoices after verifying the prices
• Planning of additional trips
• Optimizing transportation costs
• Roundwood Measurement and Quality Control
• offering discounts when necessary
• Supporting management in roundwood price negotiations
• Creating roundwood credit memos and plant statements
• Overseeing the certification of the roundwood measuring system
• management of the receiving terminal
• Performing the duties of the PEFC representative (with regard to annual audits)
• Entering roundwood delivery slips

Requirements:

Vocational training:

• A completed vocational training program or degree in the field of wood science, forestry, business administration, or a comparable qualification.

Specialist knowledge:

• Experience in timber procurement, market analysis, or supply chain management is a plus; alternatively, a strong aptitude for sales or procurement.
• Proficiency in MS Office, combined with strong negotiation skills, assertiveness, and the ability to work independently and reliably.
• Class B driver's license.

Personal requirements:

• Good self-organization
• High sense of responsibility
• Accurate and efficient way of working
• An eye for detail without losing sight of the big picture
• Constructive and effective collaboration with colleagues within and across departments to achieve production targets
• Openness to innovation: Adaptability to new technologies and production processes

• Familiar working atmosphere and exciting company events.
• A modern and pleasant working environment where individuality counts.
• Good pay, performance bonuses, social benefits such as company VL.
• Individual training and development opportunities.
• Close and trusting cooperation with the operational and management team
• A comprehensive induction in the team
• A job that's immune to energy crises thanks to your own biomass power plant generating 100% green electricity
• Responsible / varied tasks

Since the beginning of Hirschbach's history in Sulzbach-Laufen, we have focused on quality, nature conservation, closeness to nature and responsible timber trading. Our guiding principle is a family environment with a passionate penchant for innovation and a focus on the future.

To this end, we make sure we have modern technical equipment and, in order to keep our environmental protection promise, we put our biomass power plant into operation in June 2020; this means that we can now supply not only our company but also surrounding households with 100% of bio-electricity.