Sourcing Associate

**Requisition ID**:2906**Location**:Louvain-la-Neuve, BE**Work regime**:Full-Time**Kind of contract**:Open Ended Contract**Mission**
As a Sourcing Associate, you will be in charge of the sourcing of Mechanical Commercial Parts (such as bolts, nuts, industrial pumps, valves, pneumatic components, tools, etc ) and Individual Protective Equipment, for our 3 Business Units located in Belgium.
You will report to the Direct Sourcing Manager.

**Challenges we trust you with**
- Perform sourcing marketing to identify potential suppliers.
- Prepare RFQ (Requests for Quotations) and send them to identify, or research new suppliers
- Prepare, challenge and negotiate with the suppliers.
- Establish and manage contractual relations with suppliers.
- Ensure the quality of the purchased items in collaboration with the Business Unit and Suppliers Development Engineers team.
- Build up and secure the milestone management plans and production capacities of the suppliers.
- Identify critical solutions, organize technical reviews and post-mortem analysis with suppliers.
- Identify and implement collaborative actions to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and deploy continuous improvement actions.
- Coordinate purchasing activities with system owners as well as the whole supply chain.
- Lead recurrent meetings with your dedicated Procurement Associate and Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) to follow issues, action plans, and improvements related to your purchased commodities.
- Define, get approval on and implement sourcing strategies for your commodities of products.

**What we value**

**You have**:

- A first experience in the purchasing of technical parts.
- Excellent negotiation, networking and persuasion skills.
- Experience of selecting, qualifying and managing solutions suppliers based in a Quality Management System.
- Knowledge of MS Office and SAP (MM)

**And you also are**:

- A driven and result-oriented individual and you can organize your work autonomously.
- A flexible and stress resistant person with effective organizing and problem-solving skills.
- A team player with excellent oral and written communications skills, both in French and in English.