Industrial Buyer M/F

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, you will take charge of strategic purchasing challenges and play a key role in cost control, securing supplies, and supplier performance.

You will be responsible for managing strategic technical categories (mechanics, chemistry, industrial subcontracting, and packaging).

Your missions

In this capacity, your missions consist of:

• Ensuring supplier management and relationships (drafting calls for tender, proposal, negotiation, and drafting purchasing contracts, in accordance with group policy).
• Negotiating prices and lead times with suppliers.
• Implementing and managing cost reduction plans.
• Carrying out sourcing operations and supplier monitoring.
• Participating in supplier audits to ensure their qualification in compliance with quality requirements.
• Managing internal or external relationships, informing and assisting all departments within the framework of your activities according to the provisions to be applied.
• Being the guarantor of the proper progress of projects (cost, quality, lead time) by following a defined purchasing process.
• Proposing and deploying the strategy for the assigned portfolio(s).
• Identifying and mapping risks (mono-sourcing, obsolescence, dependency).
• Deploying securing plans.

Travel is to be expected (mostly in France and Europe) to ensure the proper progress of your activities.

Permanent position (CDI)

Joining us also means:

• Benefiting from concrete advantages: profit sharing, holiday bonus, company restaurant, transport allowances (car, bicycle, or public transport), CSE social & cultural activities, advantageous family mutual insurance, teleworking, flexible hours, additional leave, etc.
• Joining a company, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, providing access to: a privileged shareholding system, capped reimbursements to support you in your personal expenses related to your energy efficiency and mobility, discounts on your fuel consumption or electric recharges;
• Being an actor in your professional career: access to numerous training programs, and to internal mobility offers within Saft or TotalEnergies.

Desired profile

• Master's degree (BAC+5) in Purchasing or Supply chain management.
• You have a career as a confirmed Buyer (5 to 10 years) with significant experience, ideally in complex industrial purchasing.
• You have technical knowledge and/or an interest in mechanics.
• You possess knowledge of Purchasing and Supply Chain processes.
• You have a good command of office tools.
• Given the international nature of the company, a fluent level of English is required.

At Saft, we are committed to promoting employment, for people with disabilities, on equal skills; because we are sure that diversity, in all its forms, is an undeniable strength for our attractiveness, our capacity for innovation, and our competitiveness.