Industrial Project and Procurement Buyer (M/F)

LIP Office agency is looking for, for one of its clients, an engineering consultant, an Industrial Project and Procurement Buyer (M/F) on a CDI contract.

Your role:

Reporting to the Operations Department, you will take charge of industrial purchasing within your scope and also intervene in the procurement of complex or high-stakes business, in coordination with the procurement officers. You are a key player from the quoting phase: you provide the sales and design/quoting teams with reactive and reliable responses regarding prices, lead times, possible suppliers, and technical solutions.

Your main missions:

• Conduct supplier consultations for specific or complex business, supporting the design/quoting and sales teams during the quoting phases.
• Analyze technical specifications and verify the relevance of supplier offers: cost, quality, lead time, and industrial feasibility.
• Negotiate purchasing conditions for technical business: mechanical parts, specific equipment, subcontracting, special machines, and significant volumes.
• Develop and maintain the supplier and subcontractor portfolio: sourcing, consultations, supplier visits, indicators, agreements, and purchasing contracts.
• Ensure active sourcing in France and internationally, notably with the Group's industrial resources, including the GMM Inox factory in Poland.
• Establish and maintain up-to-date price databases to ensure the reliability of quotes, consultations, and future orders.
• Take charge of procurement for large business or complex projects when technical, lead time, or supplier stakes require reinforced monitoring.
• Coordinate priorities with procurement officers to secure follow-ups, deliveries, supplier lead times, and project needs.
• Manage supplier disputes related to quality, lead times, price discrepancies, or delivery non-conformities.

Training in purchasing, supply chain, or technical fields, with proven experience in an industrial environment. Good understanding of mechanical environments: special machines, boilermaking, industrial equipment, mechanical parts, or job-shop manufacturing. Ability to read a technical requirement, consult, compare, negotiate, and secure a supplier solution. Reactivity, rigor, sense of internal service, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work transversally with sales, technical, and operational teams. Professional English is necessary. Occasional travel is to be expected in France and abroad.