About tonies:
tonies is the globally leading interactive audio platform for children with more than 10 million Tonieboxes and 125 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes around 1,400 Tonies in several languages. Since its inception, tonies has achieved significant milestones, including listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2021 as well as a globally present team of over 550 dedicated professionals operating from various countries.
Joining our tonies team means being part of an inspiring mission to create innovative and meaningful experiences for children around the world. Together, we’re shaping the future of play, learning, and imagination.
You as part of tonies:
As Strategic Procurement Buyer – Direct Procurement, you play a key role in advancing tonies’ global sourcing organization and ensuring that Procurement drives fast, reliable, resilient, and cost-efficient business continuity. You implem ent procurement standards, help develop category strategies, and shape the RfQ process in close collaboration with our Sourcing Hub in Asia — from defining timelines to supporting evaluations and the awarding process. Acting as an innovation buyer, you partner with Product Development from the earliest ideation stages to enable early supplier involvement, technical feasibility, and cost transparency. Based in Düsseldorf, you strengthen the bridge between tonies headquarter and global sourcing operations, ensuring alignment between strategic direction and global execution.
Your tasks and responsibilities will include:
1. Support for the creation of category and sourcing strategies for direct procurement focussing on key categories (e.g., Toniebox, Figurines)
2. Translate strategic procurement goals into actionable roadmaps, standards, and processes
3. Act as interface to the Asia Sourcing Hub and support implementation of developed sourcing strategies for key categories incl. RfQs
4. Ensure RfQ activities meet resilience, cost, and quality targets while providing analytical decision support.
5. Act as an innovation buyer, collaborating with Product Development during early concept and design phases.
6. Ensure early supplier involvement, technical feasibility, and alignment with sourcing strategies.
7. Conduct supplier market research and risk assessments to identify alternative sourcing opportunities.
8. Track and analyze global supply market trends to identify sourcing opportunities and cross-functionally across Product Development, Engineering, Quality, Production, and Supply Chain, ensuring alignment between HQ and the Sourcing Hub.
9. Communicate effectively between HQ and the Sourcing Hub to ensure transparency and alignment.
What we are looking for:
10. Degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related technical field.
11. Multiple years (>2) of experience in strategic procurement, supplier management, or category management, ideally in a manufacturing or consumer goods context.
12. Solid understanding of global sourcing markets, supplier qualification, and RfQ processes.
13. Strong analytical, conceptual, and project management skills.
14. Excellent collaboration and communication skills across functions and regions.
15. Fluency in English; German or Mandarin language skills are advantageous.
16. Willingness to travel internationally (approx. 20–30%) and to work in a hybrid setup with 2–3 on-site days per week in Düsseldorf.
Why tonies?
17. Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
18. Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
19. Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
20. Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
21. Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
22. Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
23. Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
24. Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.
Good to know:
As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Sabine Schykowski
Talent Acquisition Manager