INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS & PROCUREMENT BUYER (M/F)

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

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 stakes, lead times, or suppliers 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 confirmed 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 required. Occasional travel is to be expected in France and abroad.