Purchasing Specialist

Capgemini; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medicover health care

Private life insurance

Sports card

Capgemini Helpline wellbeing

Job summary

Capgemini Polska in Kraków is seeking a Purchasing Specialist to support procurement activities, manage supplier relationships, and ensure smooth cross-functional cooperation in a dynamic, international environment.

The role focuses on cost, quality, and delivery targets, requires strong Excel skills, and involves coordinating with internal stakeholders. The position offers a hybrid work model and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of purchasing or procurement experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a relevant field.
• Very good communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Purchase goods, materials, components, or services meeting cost, quality, and delivery targets.
• Run RFQs and compare quotations to support sourcing decisions.
• Select suppliers based on defined criteria for best terms.
• Monitor purchasing processes and communicate risks and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Manage end-to-end purchase orders from request to delivery and payment.

Skills

Procurement experience

Communication

Negotiation

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

English proficiency

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Advanced Excel (Pivot tables)

Ariba or SAP (nice to have)

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

As a Purchasing Specialist, you will play an important role in supporting purchasing activities and ensuring smooth cooperation with suppliers and internal stakeholders. This is a great opportunity to grow your experience in procurement within a dynamic, international environment.

Your Tasks

• Purchasing goods, materials, components, or services in line with agreed cost, quality, and delivery targets.
• Running RFQs and comparing received quotations to support optimal sourcing decisions.
• Selecting suppliers based on defined criteria to achieve the best commercial terms and conditions.
• Monitoring purchasing processes and proactively communicating risks and opportunities to stakeholders and other functions.
• Cooperating closely with peers and cross-functional teams to support continuous process improvements.
• Managing purchase orders end-to-end, from purchase request creation and review, through order placement, to final delivery and payment.
• Building and maintaining positive, long-term relationships with suppliers.
• Ensuring compliance with company guidelines, purchasing policies, procedures, process flows, DTPs, and relevant documentation.
• Supporting the vendor assessment process based on established criteria.

Your Profile

• Minimum 2 years of experience in purchasing or procurement.
• A proactive, self-driven mindset and motivation to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Openness to learning, a hands-on attitude, and willingness to take initiative.
• Very good communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical skills with a problem-solving approach and attention to detail.
• Results-oriented mindset with the ability to set the right priorities.
• Good organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel (including pivot tables and complex formulas).
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a relevant field, with a fluent English (both, written and spoken).
• Willingness to work second shifts (15:00-23:00) approximately 40% of the time.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with sourcing and procurement systems such as Ariba, iValua, SAP, Oracle, Coupa, or similar tools will be an advantage.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• Well-being culture: medical care with Medicover, private life insurance, and Sports card. But we went one step farther by creating our own Capgemini Helpline offering therapeutical support if needed and the educational podcast "Let’s talk about wellbeing" which you can listen to on Spotify.
• Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• Continuous feedback and ongoing performance discussions thanks to our performance management tool GetSuccess supported by a transparent performance management policy.
• Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair).

Get to know us

Capgemini is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness in all employment practices. We evaluate individuals based on qualifications and performance, not personal characteristics, striving to create a workplace where everyone can succeed and feel valued.

Do you want to get to know us better? Check our Instagram - @capgeminipl or visit our Facebook profile - Capgemini Polska. You can also find us on YouTube.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.