Technical Buyer (M/F)

Your tasks

You will participate in the entire procurement process for complex technical projects. You will manage risks in compliance with the Code de la Commande Publique, including defense or security markets. You will represent the procurement department both internally and externally at ONERA.

In a project mode, you will be responsible for:

• Deploying the procurement department's policy and objectives, and defining the procurement strategy for your projects
• Understanding and structuring needs and analyzing technical specifications drafted by project teams
• Conducting commercial prospecting (active monitoring of capabilities and innovations) at national and international levels
• Choosing the best procedure and drafting administrative and contractual documents, integrating intellectual and industrial property clauses adapted to the need
• Evaluating offers according to financial, technical, scientific, quality, deadline, and societal criteria, and managing national and international negotiations
• Drafting bid analysis reports and defending your choices before the commission des marchés
• Monitoring execution at ONERA sites and at suppliers over several years, from launch to closure, and capitalizing on useful feedback to improve quality
• Anticipating and managing changes during execution, and negotiating subsequent amendments
• Evaluating supplier performance and managing recovery plans in case of difficulty
• Ensuring the sustainability of critical suppliers
• Advising and supporting internal clients as a trusted partner to the project manager
• Establishing subcontracts for ONERA's state or private client contracts.

Requirements

With a Master's degree (generalist engineering school or specialized in mechanics, potentially supplemented by a specialization in procurement, commercial, or legal), you have a minimum of 10 years of experience as a buyer on complex industrial/technical/scientific projects, particularly in research and development, ideally acquired in the aeronautics, space, or defense sector, at an international level.

The future, research, development, aeronautics, space, and defense passion you.

Ideally, you have also acquired experience in a technical/scientific environment (engineering, research and development, production, industrialization, etc.) allowing you to understand project stakes, communicate effectively with engineering teams and subject matter experts, and correctly draft associated documents while carefully expressing sensitive points. Knowledge or practice of the Code de la Commande Publique would be a plus.

You know how to be curious, autonomous, reactive, and organized in handling files. You have the ability to lead cross-functional project teams, being proactive and persuasive.

You are proficient in English to conduct negotiations with foreign suppliers and partners, both written and spoken.

You know how to be attentive to your interlocutors and their constraints; you are comfortable in client/supplier relationships, as well as within your team where your sense of diplomacy will be appreciated. You know how to demonstrate pragmatism and flexibility to succeed in your negotiations.

Other

Your missions will be subject to obtaining a national defense clearance (habilitation de Défense nationale).

The position will be relocated from the Châtillon center to the Palaiseau center during the first half of 2027.