Department Manager - Purchasing

Nidec ASI | Roche La Molière & La Fouillouse, near Saint-Étienne (42)

Your next challenge: making purchasing an engine of our development

Do you want to combine management, purchasing strategy, and European industrial projects? Take responsibility for our France Purchasing department and contribute to a new stage of our development.

Nidec ASI SAS designs, produces, and installs energy storage systems.

From our industrial base near Saint-Étienne, you will lead purchasing and secure the supply for our projects in France and Europe.

Our site is currently being expanded to meet market needs. You will support this evolution by developing a purchasing organization capable of anticipating needs, strengthening our competitiveness, and securing our commitments.

Your role: setting the course, growing the team, and transforming purchasing challenges into concrete results.

Your responsibilities

Manage and develop your team

• Define priorities, organize resources, and provide clear direction.
• Delegate, develop autonomy, and support skill development.
• Foster cooperation within the department and with other functions.

Strengthen the competitiveness of our projects

• Deploy purchasing strategies in alignment with project needs and international organization orientations.
• Develop the supplier panel and build sustainable partnerships.
• Support key negotiations and secure commercial and contractual commitments.
• Improve costs by integrating quality, lead time, and risk management requirements.

Anticipate needs and secure supplies

• Work closely with sales, projects, engineering, and operations teams.
• Anticipate capacity constraints and supplier risks.
• Supervise supplier commitments and drive necessary action plans.
• Ensure effective coordination between sourcing, contracting, and order execution.

Structure sustainable performance

• Drive purchasing indicators and translate them into concrete actions.
• Strengthen data reliability and reporting quality.
• Improve processes, clarify interfaces, and support change management.

Your profile

With higher education in purchasing, engineering, or management, or possessing equivalent experience, you have proven experience in industrial purchasing within a technical and international environment, as well as experience in team management.

You bring:

• Mastery of complex negotiations, cost analysis, and contractual issues.
• An ability to understand industrial constraints and anticipate risks.
• An aptitude for arbitrating, deciding, and mobilizing stakeholders.
• Professional English allowing you to work and negotiate in an international environment.
• Proficiency with ERPs, ideally SAP, and analysis and reporting tools.

You combine strategic vision with operational proximity. You know how to empower a team and build demanding and constructive relationships with both suppliers and internal customers.

Experience in energy, electrical equipment, or complex industrial projects would be an asset.

What makes this position stimulating

• A direct impact on the competitiveness and success of our projects.
• A concrete industrial anchor, combined with a France and Europe project scope.
• The opportunity to build, by evolving purchasing practices and supplier partnerships.
• An international dimension, within the Energy Systems purchasing organization.

Join us

Do you like providing direction, mobilizing a team, and staying close to industrial realities? This challenge is made for you.

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