Mission:
Proceed with all operational purchasing tasks focus on Projects and Services activity, from supplier identification to contractual agreements and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for contractual and innovative set up to ensure competitive offer and execution margin improvement within a project team.
- Define the specific purchasing strategy for the project, focusing on high stake / high risk commodities, continuously prioritizing tasks based on project time schedule.
- Secure the supplier sourcing & selection, being involved from the early tendering phases of the project to the cash collection, integrating all specification aspects (cost, lead-time, technology, quality, flexibility, logistic, financing& cash flow, T&C's ...), , managing Suppliers Homologation and Evaluation and the bid tabulation (based on total cost of ownership (TCO)), securing the negotiation process (including T&C).
- Assess risks and opportunities on the supply chain and transfer/mitigate them as early as possible through audit, contractual clauses, supplier action plan.
- Do contracts with suppliers taking into account customer requirements, anticipating potential changes & claims with suppliers.
- Manage the purchasing order process with an ethical approach, securing the assets from SE
- Secure the supply deliveries, managing the risk mitigation plans with suppliers and anticipating pro-actively the necessary reminders
- Participate to the margin improvement by closely monitor and control supplier changes & claims as well as supply chain resources during execution.
- Achieve qualification of supplier and evaluation of performance for service and material purchases.
- Contribute as team member to better serve the customer, taking into consideration the change orders and the expectations from customers, selecting flexible suppliers
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Skills and qualifications:
- Proven, hands-on experience, ideally in a procurement role and proven track record as a Senior Purchaser. Experience on Projects business environment highly appreciated
- Experience on full scope of purchases (including advanced negotiation and contract management)
- Strong customer orientation
- Good project process understanding, besides rigorous governance and process management
- Experience on Suppliers Homologation and Qualification Processes.
- Autonomy, sense of responsibility and commitment, faultless ethic
- Proximity management and management by participation
- Team player and builder
- Proven ability to work inside international cross-functional teams
- Leadership and cooperation skills
- Ability for exposure to Management Committee
- Fluent in English . Other lenguages nive to have
- Technical degree - preference for engineering subjects.
- Good knowledge Microsoft Office and SAP
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