Plant Buyer

Description

• Support to plant in purchasing activities

  • Supervise the sourcing, price and contract negotiation, together with the requester and the Category Buyers / procurement center (for specific or spot purchase needs of the plant).
  • Manage contracts & negotiation with local suppliers assigned to Plant Purchasing responsibility by Purchasing organisation
  • 1st level escalation in case of logistic or quality issue
  • Contribute to cost reduction ideas and supports local projects implementation.

  Interface between plant and global / regional purchasing

  • Apply and check compliance of plant purchase requests with defined category strategy and consumption policies.
  • Interact with Indirect Purchasing category buyers and plant stakeholders for definition/update of category purchasing strategy, consumption policies.
  • Ensure communication (relay) between plant management and Global / regional Purchasing organisation
  • Facilitate and redirect local plant requests and transactions to dedicated transactional resources (Procurement Center)
  • Ensure escalation to Regional management, Global Supply Chain Director and Category Manager for logistic disruption and capacity issues.

  Reporting and purchasing representation

  • Represent the Purchasing organisation during internal & external audits.
  • Contribute and provide plant indirect materials reporting

  Indirect position

• Additional Job Description

  Key Professional Competencies

  • Customer orientation : understanding of plant purchasing needs for goods and services
  • Deep knowledge of purchasing process
  • Purchasing & procurement tools
  • Finance acumen
  • Fluent English level

  Key Personal Competencies

  • Analytical & Problem Solving
  • Collaboration & Teamwork
  • Learning Agility & Adaptation
  • Implementation & Result Orientation
  • Relationship Building & Networking

  Qualification & Experience

  • Bachelor/Master degree in Engineering
  • At least 5 years of experience in industrial purchasing
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