Strategic Buyer OEM

GEA; Sala Baganza; In loco; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading industrial company in Italy is seeking an experienced procurement professional to handle tactical sourcing, manage purchase orders, and maintain project-related interactions. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 3 years' experience in procurement, strong negotiation and project management skills, and fluency in English. This role is crucial for ensuring efficient sourcing and enhancing supplier relationships within project frameworks.

Competenze

• Minimum 3 years of experience in procurement.
• Contract management experience is essential.
• Work experience in complex organizations.

Mansioni

• Responsible for tactical sourcing activities related to the supported project.
• Processes purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and follows up on order confirmations.
• Acts as the first procurement point of contact for project stakeholders.

Conoscenze

Negotiation skills

Project management skills

Fluent in English

Strong analytical skills

Cost analysis and management

Cultural awareness and intercultural sensitivity

Strumenti

ERP (SAP)

Descrizione del lavoro

Responsibilities / Tasks

Sourcing

• Responsible for tactical sourcing activities related to the supported project, with thresholds agreed upon with the head of procurement and/or category managers.
• Can be responsible for low-spend contracting with vendors, limited to general T&C or simplified agreements within the scope of the category strategy, based on the entity setup.
• Steers the project in adherence with applicable category strategies & the use of preferred suppliers.

Purchase Requisition, Purchasing & Order processing

• Processes purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and follows up on order confirmations (including expediting if needed).
• Clarifies issues with requestors and suppliers.
• Provides feedback to the head of procurement when requisitions go outside of suitable framework agreements.
• Acts as the first point of contact with vendors for daily operations.

Invoice Processing & Manage Master Data

• Supports solving invoice mismatches that cannot be processed by Finance / Accenture, based on the entity setup.
• Maintains local raw material or vendor master data, based on the entity setup.

Project-related interactions

• Acts as the first procurement point of contact for project stakeholders in project management, engineering, project planning, controlling, and other relevant roles.
• Ensures that qualitative and quantitative inputs from the project team are captured at different project stages.
• Requests sourcing support for relevant scope of supply from strategic buyers and/or category managers (both direct and indirect).
• Involved early in project sales phase discussions and recurrently in later phases.
• Shares progress information from the procurement perspective (weekly project calls, monthly steerCo, stage gate reviews).
• Partners with logistics representatives to track risks, costs, and lead times related to transport, import/export, and receipt of goods.

Your Profile / Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in procurement.
• ERP (SAP) / procurement key user experience or knowledge.
• Knowledge of international contract management.
• Cultural awareness and intercultural sensitivity.
• Contract management experience is essential.
• Experience with implementing corporate procurement processes.
• Work experience in complex organizations.
• Negotiation skills.
• Cost analysis and management capabilities.
• Project management skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Financial and business acumen.
• Ability to network across sites and build relationships.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic/tactical thinking skills.
• Takes ownership of work, successes, and mistakes.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization.