Lead Buyer

The client:
Our client has been heavily involved in energy, the Lead Buyer will support the constant growth of customers and associated projects.

Missions:
Under the responsibility of the Procurement Manager and in support of the project teams, you will be responsible for managing all the necessary actions within your categories and purchasing scope.
- Responsible for purchasing all materials, equipment and services used in the course of the business.
- Develop supply sources and purchase all materials and services to the Company’s exact business requirements and technical specifications, using group deals where specified, at competitive rates, within budget and ensuring deliveries can be made within project time frame up to quality acceptance and receipt.
- Ensure that all Procurement process and procedures are adhered to within the company.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who will meet important Procurement milestones, can hit the ground running and work as a self-starter who embraces a teamworking mindset in a well-established organization and great potential business.

Project and Operational
- Support to the pre-sales and projects to draft and launch tender packages, to source vendors and ensure their compliance with the requirements mentioned in the technical specifications.
- Negotiate prices and assess remaining negotiation margin to secure prices of materials, equipment and services that will be used by the Proposals/Estimating.
- Prepare and present comparative tables allowing project managers to make the right decisions allowing you to launch purchase orders.
- During the project execution, renegotiate with suppliers to optimize costs of materials, parts and services (TCO/TCP).
- Supervise the launch of purchase orders by the local buyer in accordance with the procedures and delegations in force.
- Follow up with suppliers and service providers to ensure delivery times and the quality of deliverables.
- Close the projects by highlighting the gains generated.
- Provide management with feedback on experience as part of a continuous improvement policy for the Purchasing function.

Strategic
- Understand and develop strategies relating to the categories of products and/or services for which you will be responsible and proactively lead initiatives to achieve objectives of the Procurement department.
- Establish and maintain dedicated strategies for the most critical categories considering priorities of Renewable Energy sector in strategic sourcing actions.
- Identify, qualify and evaluate new suppliers and partners in collaboration with stakeholders and the Quality department.
- Rationalize existing vendor’s database.
- Provide Proposal/Estimating department with all the unit price references and necessary elements, in order to support them to establish budgets for categories (materials, equipment and services) for which you will be responsible.
- Negotiate, draft and conclude framework contracts and partnerships for high-potential products and services, within the framework of group's Procurement strategy and policy.
- Assess suppliers in accordance with ISO 9001 quality system
- Implement metrics / KPIs to continuously assess vendor’s performances of the categories you will be responsible for.
- This role is transversal, to this end, you may be called upon to support internal clients from other divisions of the group.
- You will be required to supervise local buyers.
- As part of continuous improvement, you will actively participate in the transformation of the procurement department by regularly evaluating the practices, methodologies, and procedures in place.

**Qualifications requises**:
10 years’ experience in a role as lead buyer or category manager within an industrial and international context.

Skills and qualifications required:

- MS in procurement, purchasing, technical/engineering and/or sales.
- Project management certification (PRINCE2, CPM, etc.) preferred.
- Evolved within technical environments with complex products.
- Profound knowledge of sourcing, RFI/RFQ, supplier qualifications, purchasing process in project mode, management of strategic vendors.
- Supplier Agreements and framework contracts: drafting and analysis.
- Deep negotiation skills.
- Honest with impeccable ethics
- Strong cross functional leadership skills
- Ability to communicate unambiguously at several levels of hierarchies both internally and externally.
- You know how to work in a team and in close collaboration with the various stakeholders.
- Curious, good Communicator, pragmatic, and diplomat while being firm and pugnacious if necessary.
- Excellent command of English (oral and written) and able to conduct complex negotiations with suppliers in English.
- Proficient in SAP, MS Office (Words, Excel, PowerPoint) and Power BI.
- You are available for temporary assignments, of variable duration, anywhere in the world.