Senior Industrial Buyer M/F

Chantiers de l'AtlantiqueLoire-Atlantique, Saint-NazaireEURESpublished 05/20/2026
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The Purchasing Department is a strategic function that represents 75% of the company's turnover. It brings together 80 people distributed across 6 sectors. The complexity of our works combined with the different types of purchases (Subcontracting / Equipment / Cabins / General Expenses / Services / EMR) allows you to evolve in an enriching environment. A skilled negotiator, even in English, the core of your profession as a Buyer is negotiation, with national and international suppliers:

  • You define and implement a purchasing strategy,
  • You identify, in liaison with your internal clients, short and medium-term needs,
  • You manage calls for tender launched in tandem with the technical engineer,
  • You optimize purchase prices, search for and implement cost reductions,
  • You negotiate contracts and ensure their follow-up,
  • You participate in progress actions planned within the company plan,
  • You perform supplier performance evaluations.

This position leads you to be in daily interface with various interlocutors to manage internal and external relations.

  • You hold a Bac+5 degree supplemented by confirmed experience in purchasing.
  • You enjoy combining your strong taste for technology and project-based work.
  • You know how to demonstrate your capacities for synthesis, structuring, and analysis.
  • Reactivity and adaptation are key assets to respond to our clients' requests.
  • Possessing excellent interpersonal skills, you have natural leadership and are well-versed in negotiation.
  • You master spoken and written English to exchange with suppliers.

Coming to us also means:

  • Having great career opportunities and a multitude of professional trajectories,
  • Having numerous benefits such as: RTT, provident/family mutual insurance (60% covered by the employer), company restaurant with employer contribution, CSE: holiday vouchers, leisure, travel, sports associations, free media library...
  • The possibility to benefit from up to 6 days of teleworking per month.
  • Day rate basis on the basis of 218 days
  • 13-month remuneration
  • Profit-sharing and participation agreement
  • Mandatory annual negotiation every year
  • Excellent geographical location: close to the ocean, SNCF station and bus lines nearby
  • Joining a company committed to diversity, notably through our "Elles de l'Atlantique" approach which promotes gender diversity within the company.

Because the sea is our future and soon yours! Find our recruitment process at www.chantiers-atlantique.com