Group Buyer (M/F)

Your tasks

RESPONSIBILITIES Reporting to the General Management, you will play a key role in cost reduction, optimization of purchasing conditions, and improvement of the Group's margins.

Your objective: identify and exploit all savings levers, challenge suppliers, and obtain the best commercial conditions, while guaranteeing the quality of services.

Your main missions

• Negotiation and cost reduction: conduct demanding supplier negotiations, renegotiate existing contracts, and obtain measurable financial gains across all purchasing families.
• Spend analysis and optimization: map purchases, analyze cost structures, identify priority spending items, and implement concrete savings actions.
• Sourcing and competition: identify new suppliers, organize consultations and tenders, challenge offers, and systematically search for the best pricing conditions.
• Purchasing massification: pool volumes between different entities, rationalize the supplier panel, and negotiate Group framework agreements to strengthen negotiating power.
• Deployment of the purchasing strategy: work in collaboration with an external purchasing expert to translate strategic directions into operational action plans and tangible economic results.
• Performance management: track savings achieved, measure gains obtained, build performance indicators, and ensure regular reporting to General Management.
• Support for entities: collaborate with operational managers to harmonize practices, optimize purchasing, and develop a true culture of cost control.

Do you enjoy negotiating, challenging prices, and transforming your actions into measurable savings? This position will allow you to have a direct impact on the economic performance of a rapidly growing Group.

Requirements

With higher education in purchasing, commerce, management, or engineering, you have proven experience of at least 5 to 8 years in purchasing, ideally acquired in a multi-site, multi-entity environment or in BtoB services.

Beyond your technical expertise, we are primarily looking for a seasoned negotiator, driven by the pursuit of gains and the continuous improvement of purchasing performance.

• Excellent mastery of supplier negotiation and renegotiation techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in cost reduction and achieving significant savings.
• Ability to analyze prices, challenge offers, and identify optimization levers.
• Mastery of sourcing, tenders, and contracting.
• Good understanding of financial and profitability issues.
• Advanced mastery of Excel and purchasing/ERP tools.
• Professional English is essential.

Your personality will make the difference

• Negotiator temperament: you enjoy challenging, convincing, and obtaining the best conditions.
• Result-oriented culture: you are driven by concrete and measurable gain objectives.
• Analytical mindset: you know how to dissect costs and identify savings opportunities.
• Pugnacity and perseverance: you know how to defend the Group's economic interests with firmness and diplomacy.
• Pragmatism and autonomy: you prioritize concrete actions and operational results.