Group Project Direct Buyer (M/F)

The position: The proman agency Belfort is looking for one of its clients for: 1 GROUP PROJECT DIRECT BUYER M/F: The Direct and Group Project Buyer defines the purchasing strategy in collaboration with the general management of the company and the group. He ensures its implementation through a targeted choice of products, services, and suppliers. He represents the company, negotiates purchase contracts, and intervenes if necessary via escalation on the supply chain and routing flows. He holds responsibility for a sector, a team, and resources in his capacity as a line manager. He ensures communication, leads his team, organizes work, and ensures the performance improvement of his collaborators. Placed under the authority of the site director and the Group Purchasing Director, he collaborates with all company personnel. Description of significant activities:

1. Sourcing, qualification, negotiation with suppliers

• Ensure supplier sourcing
• Follow up on supplier qualification
• Manage the direct purchasing portfolio (Raw Material, Subcontracting, etc.)
• Launch consultations or calls for tender, request quotations (RFQ (request for quotation)), qualify offers, rationalize the supplier panel.
• Negotiate purchasing conditions: price, quality, lead time, volume.
• Analyze requests and departmental needs and verify their relevance
• Manage risks related to suppliers

1. Monitoring the acquisition contract

• Execute and manage commercial agreements with suppliers, ensure order placement, monitor indicators (activity reporting),
• Develop the purchasing follow-up sheet, inform the internal client of their order progress, evaluate their satisfaction level.
• Perform an annual review of supplier performance according to criteria (rating) defined with the purchasing department, update their KPI in the database,
• Perform market studies/Benchmarking
• Proactive in proposing ways to achieve savings

Profile sought: Mastery of office tools, interpersonal skills, entry of all types of purchase orders (PPAP, trial, closed, open) and order amendments, communication, administrative sales management in the current ERP SILVERPROD or other software, mastery of English

Excellent reactivity and ability to manage multiple subjects simultaneously

Good understanding of industrial and purchasing challenges Ability to synthesize information and prepare decision recommendations Ease in exchanges with suppliers and internal interlocutors Rigor, autonomy, and organizational skills Languages: English and Spanish All our positions are open to people with disabilities.