Buyer (M/F)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting to the Purchasing Director, you will manage a supplier portfolio to ensure cost control, product quality, partner reliability, and compliance with deadlines. Your main missions:

• Management of purchase requests: meet the needs of sales teams from listed suppliers and process requests with reactivity and efficiency.
• Internal consulting: act as a proactive advisor to sales teams in choosing suitable products and suppliers.
• Negotiation: negotiate pricing conditions for new requests and participate in annual negotiations with certain suppliers.
• Supplier performance monitoring: ensure monthly monitoring, analyze key indicators, and provide reporting to the purchasing department and the QSE department.
• Audits and quality: organize, in connection with the QSE department, audits of strategic or potential suppliers.
• Risk management: inform sales teams in the event of a supplier failure and identify alternative solutions if necessary.
• Monitoring and continuous improvement: ensure technological and market monitoring, propose improvements to internal tools and processes related to purchasing.
• Alert and coordination: alert the purchasing department in case of malfunction or deviation in the supplier relationship.
• Mobility: undertake occasional travel at a national or international level to meet suppliers and participate in audits.

REQUIRED PROFILE:

With a background in purchasing, you have a successful first experience in a buyer role within an industrial or distribution environment.

• Education: Bac+2/Bac+3 specialized in purchasing (type DUT/BUT, professional license, BTS with a specialization in purchasing).
• Experience: Significant experience in purchasing, ideally in industry or BtoB distribution.
• Technical skills: mastery of purchasing and supplier negotiation techniques, good understanding of logistics processes and their constraints.
• Personal qualities: dynamism, results orientation, professionalism, curiosity, strong analytical capacity, and synthesis skills.
• Interpersonal skills: ability to share information, disseminate best practices, and collaborate effectively with sales teams.
• Autonomy and commitment: sense of responsibility, involvement, desire to build a long-term career within a human-sized entrepreneurial environment.
• Languages: professional English required to communicate with certain suppliers and follow market developments.