European Contracts Buyer

**EUROPEAN CONTRACTS BUYER (H/F/X)**

**About INEOS Inovyn**:
Part of INEOS, INOVYN is Europe's leading producer of vinyls and in the top three worldwide. With an annual turnover of €3.1 billion, INOVYN has circa 4,200 employees and chemical manufacturing, sales and marketing operations in 8 countries across Europe.

The European Contracts Buyer is accountable for the negotiation and ongoing management of a portfolio of pan European Technical Goods and General Expense contracts, ensuring the balance between cost, supply performance and avoidance of business disruption.

**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**:

- Manage a buying portfolio taking direct responsibility for strategic supplier negotiations and external relationships, managing tenders and supplier selection to maximise long and short-term benefits to INOVYN.
- Negotiate and manage contracts for use across all 16 manufacturing sites in Europe, requiring extensive and varied knowledge of the diverse markets and range of suppliers in the assigned purchase portfolio.
- Ensure that during supplier approval and selection process compliance to safety, health and the environment (SHE) and quality requirements are fully tested to ensure goods and services are provided to the required standard.
- Be responsible for driving the delivery of synergy targets within the category and will act as a category market expert.
- Need to interface with site procurement managers, legal function, engineering and maintenance managers to develop sourcing strategies and approaches to satisfy the extensive and varied requirements of the large number of INOVYN sites.
- Collaborate with the other INEOS businesses to leverage procurement performance.

**Key skills and knowledge required**:

- Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering
- Significant proven experience in a technical and purchasing role in an international and multi-country business context (3 years)
- Commercial understanding of diverse markets relevant for the function
- Strong analytical and negotiation; Contract expertise
- Able to influence and build strong relationship with internal customers and suppliers across multicultural environment
- Fluent in both written and spoken English and good knowledge of French
- Mobility and willingness to travel to different production sites of INOVYN (max 20%)

**Offer**:

- The opportunity to work in a growing multinational chemical company.
- An attractive salary package complemented by extra-legal benefits such as bonuses, DKV insurance, company car and 39 days holiday per year + 10 public holidays
- A high degree of freedom and flexibility in your work that allows you to achieve an interesting work-life balance.
- Innovation is our core value, we give our employees the opportunity to learn and stay up to date in their field of expertise, and this is what we expect of them.

**Are you interested and motivated ?**

**If you would like more information, please contact me at the following address**:
Type d'emploi : Temps Plein

Formation:

- Master (Optionnel)

Expérience:

- Achat industriel et d'entreprise: 1 an (Optionnel)

Langue:

- Français (Exigé)
- Allemand (Optionnel)
- Anglais (Exigé)

Lieu du poste : Un seul lieu de travail