Career at H&Z for Professionals

Your mission

• You support our customers in the conception, implementation, and productive use of modern data platforms and data management solutions
• You design data warehouse and lakehouse architectures from the initial idea through to live operation
• You develop and operate robust ETL/ELT pipelines and ensure clean monitoring and reliable error handling
• You model data and implement high performance data structures for analytics and BI applications
• In your role, you implement data quality and governance pragmatically and create transparency and traceability along data flows
• You provide data for analytics and BI and support the implementation of dashboards and reports
• In close collaboration with business departments, you gather requirements in workshops and translate them into viable technical concepts that are implemented by you or your technical colleagues
• You act as a reliable point of contact for the customer and create enthusiasm for topics around business intelligence

Your profile

• A completed degree in business informatics, computer science, data/analytics, industrial engineering, business administration with a focus on data management, or a comparable qualification
•  At least three years of practical experience in data and project environments
• Implementation experience in at least one BI tool, ideally Power BI, Qlik Sense, or SAC, and the ability to represent modern BI solutions
• Data modelling and the development of modern ETL processes have been part of your project experience, especially regarding data from SAP ERP / SAP S/4HANA
• Very good SQL skills or experience with Alteryx, Knime, or similar tools complement your ETL understanding
• You have experience in clean data modeling and performance fundamentals as well as strong, project proven Python skills for data processing and automation
• A solid understanding of data warehouse concepts and modern lakehouse architectures as well as initial experience with analytics and BI setups
• Enjoyment of consulting, a structured way of working, and teamwork
•  Very good German and good English skills

What do we offer you?

• A varied role with a high level of responsibility

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• A mentoring programme

• A friendly, close‑knit and supportive working environment

• Team events and company retreats

• Mobility benefits

• Great, centrally located office in Munich

• Free drinks, fruit and yoghurts in the office

• Company laptop and company mobile phone

• Sports and fitness offers

Your mission

• You bring your procurement experience and expertise to the development of cost reduction measures and strategies for commodity group optimization
• You are responsible for the planning, coordination and implementation of the workstreams and their activities in your area of responsibility. 
• There you will develop effective cost reduction measures and commodity group optimization plans (Value Creation Plan) for the purchasing department by applying potential analyses, the preparation of tenders, the application of commercial as well as technical purchasing levers and make-or-buy decisions.
• In your role you are also responsible for the development of our consultants on the projects
• You coach clients and own consultants, convince in discussions and workshops and actively share your knowledge

Your profile

• A completed master's degree from a well-known university 
• At least 4 years of professional experience in procurement in an international, market-leading company, ideally with project experience
• A deep and fundamental understanding of procurement and experience in areas such as commodity group management, commodity group strategy, material cost reduction, negotiations and supplier days (in particular also dealing with monopoly situations, game-theoretical approaches and more)
• You bring with you: analytical understanding, potential assessments, tricks of the trade in dealing with SAP data
• You also have specific expert knowledge in one or more of the following product groups: electrical components, mechanical parts such as castings, stampings and welded parts, or for raw materials such as steel and plastics. Alternatively, you bring expert knowledge in several indirect commodity groups. This includes experience and knowledge of procurement levers, market knowledge, supplier structure and supplier landscape.
• Experience in leading workshops and in managing a variety of procurement activities 
• You are fluent in German and English 
• In addition to your analytical and structured way of thinking and working, you should also have a good feel for situations and people 
• You can lead the way, have a hands-on mentality and drive your own topics

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great central offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

Your profile

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great central offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

• You are responsible for the implementation of consulting projects on site at our international and national customers
• There you develop effective cost reduction measures and product group optimisation plans (Value Creation Plan) for the procurement department, connected with, for example, the application of potential analyzes, the creation of tenders, the application of commercial as well as technical purchasing levers or the support of make-or-buy decisions
• In your role you are also responsible for the development of our analysts and junior consultants on the projects

Your profile

• A completed master’s degree from a well-known university or even better: an MBA or PhD
• 5 years of professional experience with another management consultancy or in the procurement department of an international, market-leading company, ideally with project experience
• A deep and fundamental understanding of procurement and experience in areas such as category management, commodity group strategies, material cost reduction, negotiations and supplier days
• Ideally, you also have specific expert knowledge in one or more indirect or direct product groups, e.g. in the area of raw materials, plastics, electronics or mechanical parts
• Experience in leading procurement initiatives and managing a large number of procurement measures
• You are fluent in English, German and perhaps speak one other foreign language as well
• In addition to your analytical and systems-oriented way of thinking and working, you should also have a good feel for situations and people

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great central offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

• As a Digital Project Manager AI & Automation Consulting, you will be part of the consulting teams working with our international and national clients, leading digitalization and tech projects with a clear focus on outcomes and implementation
• You will support the preparation of project materials, pitches and proposals, and accompany client projects from proposal development through to successful completion
• You will gather client requirements, analyze them in a structured way and independently develop solution approaches and robust recommendations
• You will design and facilitate workshops, particularly on digital topics and AI adoption, and work closely with clients, development teams and other stakeholders
• Part of your role will be to support clients in the conception, integration and implementation of AI and automation solutions, and to identify meaningful use cases along existing processes
• You will steer the development of digital solutions as well as the selection of architectures and tools such as Azure, n8n, RAG, LangChain/LangGraph and Power BI, and evaluate software solutions in terms of functionality, integration capability and ROI

Your profile

• A completed bachelor’s or master’s degree with a business, consulting or digital focus
• Experience in consulting and project environments is a must
• Solid experience working with AI tools and in the automation of processes, ideally in a consulting environment
• Initial experience translating technical requirements and a basic understanding of production-related architecture, AI-/-BI solutions and data-intensive environments
• A very good understanding of structured analyses of digital use cases, for example in the areas of market, IT architecture, processes or risks, as well as confidence working with different stakeholders
• A strong interest in independently learning how to use new tools and actively driving their adoption
• Enjoyment in communicating content clearly, both in writing through presentations and verbally in workshops and client meetings
• Fluency in German and English
• And what will further increase your chances with us: In addition to your analytical and structured way of thinking and working, you also enjoy collaborating as part of a team

What do we offer you?

• Varied tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring programme
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats
• Mobility offers
• Great central office in Munich
• Drinks, fruit & yoghurts in the office
• Company laptop & company mobile phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

• Project responsibility: You independently lead Board implementation projects in enterprise planning, from requirements gathering through to go-live
• Solution consulting: Part of your role is to jointly design and optimize planning, forecasting, and reporting processes with the client, and to translate business requirements into robust solution and data models
• Hands-on implementation: You design and build customer-specific planning and reporting applications in Board, including the implementation of multidimensional data models, calculation procedures, and dashboards
• Knowledge transfer and presales: In your role, you provide functional and technical guidance to junior colleagues and support sales and acquisition activities with demos and workshops

Your profile

• Completed degree or vocational training in business administration, economics, business informatics, computer science, or a related field

• Several years of experience, 3+ years, in implementing enterprise planning or EPM solutions, including relevant hands-on experience with the Board software or related tools (Jedox, Anaplan, Lucanet, or SAP)

• Confident handling of planning, forecasting, and reporting processes. Business knowledge in finance and controlling is an advantage

• Technical tool expertise for implementation from functional concept through to go-live

• Strong written and spoken German and English skills, as well as enthusiasm for consulting both on-site and remotely

What do we offer you?

• A varied role with a high level of responsibility

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• A mentoring programme

• A friendly, close‑knit and supportive working environment

• Team events and company retreats

• Mobility benefits

• Great, centrally located office in Munich

• Free drinks, fruit and yoghurts in the office

• Company laptop and company mobile phone

• Sports and fitness offers

Your mission

• As part of our AI development team, you work directly on challenging consulting projects for national and international clients

• You take end‑to‑end ownership of solution design for AI‑enabled products – from discovery and PoC through to production rollout

• You translate business requirements into clear technical concepts, including architecture, interfaces, data flows, and quality and acceptance criteria

• When designing and validating systems, you consider scalability, security, latency, reliability and cost.

• You build and iterate prototypes, for example using prompting, RAG approaches, agents or function calling, to validate feasibility and business value early on

• You actively help define standards and patterns for AI and LLM solutions – from model selection and prompt and context design to evaluation strategies and quality gates

• You establish LLMOps and MLOps practices, including versioning, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, feedback loops and continuous improvement

• You integrate AI capabilities into existing platforms, for example via APIs and event‑driven or service‑oriented architectures

• You embed responsible AI by design, taking data privacy (GDPR), security, bias and safety considerations, and auditability into account from the start

• As a technical sparring partner, you support and mentor engineers, align with stakeholders and communicate complex topics clearly to non‑technical audiences

Your profile

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent professional experience

• A strong software engineering background (backend and/or full stack), combined with a product mindset and consulting experience

• Hands‑on experience delivering (generative) AI solutions into production, not limited to demos or prototypes

• Solid knowledge of common LLM application patterns, including RAG, graph‑based approaches, embeddings, vector search, tool or function calling, agents and guardrails

• Experience with at least one LLM framework or stack, such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain or LlamaIndex, as well as structured prompt engineering

• The ability to evaluate AI systems systematically, including offline and online evaluation, benchmark design, qualitative reviews and regression testing for prompts and retrieval

• Experience with distributed systems and modern integration patterns such as APIs, microservices, service‑oriented architectures and event‑driven design

• Proficiency in at least one programming language and framework, for example Python, TypeScript/Node.js, C# or Java, along with strong API design skills

• Solid cloud knowledge across Azure, AWS or GCP; experience with Azure AI services (e.g. Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence) is a plus

• A DevOps mindset, including Git, CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform or Bicep), observability (logs, metrics, tracing) and cost awareness

• Security fundamentals, such as OAuth2/OIDC, authentication and authorisation, secrets management, encryption and secure coding practices

• Technical leadership or mentoring experience is a plus, complemented by strong communication skills, a proactive attitude, problem‑solving capability and attention to detail

• Fluent English for close collaboration within the team; German is a plus, but not mandatory

What do we offer you?

• A varied role with a high level of responsibility

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• A mentoring programme

• A friendly, close‑knit and supportive working environment

• Team events and company retreats

• Mobility benefits

• Great, centrally located office in Munich

• Free drinks, fruit and yoghurts in the office

• Company laptop and company mobile phone

• Sports and fitness offers

Your mission

• Deliver procurement cost improvement and transformation initiatives
• Lead defined project workstreams across direct and indirect categories
• Analyse complex client data and develop robust, fact-based insights
• Create high-quality client outputs and presentations
• Proactively engage with client stakeholders at different levels
• Actively manage your own workload in line with project objectives and budgets
• Identify inconsistencies in data and challenge assumptions constructively
• Produce project updates, dashboards, and progress reporting
• Transfer skills and knowledge to colleagues
• Contribute to the development of methodologies and internal operations

Your profile

• An excellent degree and/or MCIPS qualification
• Proven experience as a procurement consultant with a recognised UK or European consultancy
• Hands-on delivery of procurement outcomes across direct and indirect spend
• Strong analytical and commercial skills with attention to detail
• Solid project management capabilities
• Clear understanding of procurement and related technical issues
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Confidence working under pressure in client-facing environments
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Fluency in English, with another language as an advantage
• Motivation to help grow a developing UK procurement consultancy

What do we offer you?

• Challenging projects across a diverse UK and European client base
• A high-performance, supportive team environment
• Continuous training and development
• Structured mentoring
• A friendly and collaborative culture
• Employee events and company retreats
• Clear progression based on performance
• Competitive salary with performance-related bonus
• Pension, travel, medical, and dental insurance

Your mission

• You are part of the project teams on site with our international and national customers
• There you will deal with the development of Target Operating Models for procurement, the selection of suitable system platforms and the design of harmonizing processes
• You want to think outside the box and work on technical projects in purchasing or related areas (e.g. SCM)

Your profile

• A completed master’s degree from a well-known university 
• At least 3 years of professional experience with another management consultancy or in the consulting area of an IT consultancy
• Functional know-how in procurement paired with a deep understanding of procurement systems and possible extensions from an end-2-end perspective, IT-Architectures, system and process know-how, ideally supplemented by experience with SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, etc.
• You are fluent in English, German and perhaps speak one other foreign language as well
• In addition to your analytical and systems-oriented way of thinking and working, you should also have a good feel for situations and people

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

• You are part of the project teams on site at our customers and take responsibility for the content of the projects
• You help shape the project content in detail, analyze data and facts and develop hypotheses and ideas
• You motivate the customer team through close cooperation, lead workshops, discuss optimization ideas and develop implementation plans
• You are also responsible for the implementation, e.g. in the preparation and execution of tenders as well as negotiations
• You also support the customer through transformational approaches and change management

Your profile

• A completed master's degree from a well-known university 
• At least 2 years of professional experience in a team of a management consultancy specialized in purchasing and/or in the purchasing department of an international, market-leading company, ideally with project experience
• Basic purchasing understanding and experience in commodity group management, commodity group strategy, material cost reduction, negotiations or supplier days 
• Initial experience in the areas of target operating model, sustainability, digitalization or resilience in purchasing is desirable
• Knowledge of one or more indirect or direct commodity groups is also helpful
• You are fluent in German and English
• In addition to your analytical and structured way of thinking and working, you should also have a good feel for situations and people

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers

Your mission

• You are part of the project teams on site with our international and national customers
• There you develop effective cost reduction measures and product group optimisation plans (Value Creation Plan) for the procurement department, connected with, for example, the application of potential analyzes, the creation of tenders, the application of commercial as well as technical purchasing levers or the support of make-or-buy decisions

Your profile

• A completed master's degree from a well-known university
• At least 3 years of professional experience with another management consultancy or in the procurement department of an international, market-leading company, ideally with project experience
• A deep and fundamental understanding of procurement and experience in areas such as category management, commodity group strategies, material cost reduction, negotiations, and supplier days
• Ideally, you also have specific expert knowledge in one or more indirect or direct product groups, e.g. in the area of raw materials, plastics, electronics or mechanical parts
• You are fluent in English, German and perhaps speak one other foreign language as well
• In addition to your analytical and systems-oriented way of thinking and working, you should also have a good feel for situations and people

What do we offer you?

• Variety of tasks with a lot of responsibility
• Continuous training opportunities
• Mentoring program
• Familiar and friendly working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats (twice per year)
• Company car & additional mobility offers
• Great offices in Munich, Cologne and Hamburg
• Company jour-fixe with breakfast on Friday
• Drinks, fruit & yogurts in the office
• Employee participation model
• Pension scheme
• Company laptop & company cell phone
• Sports offers