Purchasing Trainee

Forvia Faurecia; Bragança; Hybrid; EUR 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvia is seeking a Purchasing Trainee Buyer to join the global purchasing team. You will source high-quality components, identify savings, and support supplier negotiations while tracking KPI performance and supporting monthly price updates and invoicing.

The role emphasizes English proficiency, a master's or engineering degree in purchasing or related field, and a proactive, analytical, and international mindset.

Qualifications

• English language is mandatory.
• Master's degree or Engineering diploma in purchasing or similar.

Responsibilities

• Create Purchasing Performance: conduct market research to identify suppliers and trends.
• Identify savings opportunities through supplier benchmarking and participate in supplier negotiations.
• Lead resourcing actions and evaluate supplier performance while maintaining vendor relationships.
• Report and monitor KPIs; prepare monthly reporting.
• Manage monthly price updates and invoices.

Skills

Market research

Negotiation

Sourcing

Vendor relations

Analytical skills

Education

Master's degree in purchasing

Engineering diploma

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

As a Purchasing Trainee Buyer, you will play a key role in our purchasing team, responsible for sourcing and securing high-quality components critical to our operations. Your main missions will include :

1. Create Purchasing Performance :

• Conducting market research to identify suppliers and trends.
• Identify savings opportunities through supplier benchmarking
• Participate to supplier negotiations
• Lead resourcing actions
• Evaluating supplier performance and maintaining strong vendor relationships

2. Reporting and operational support:

• Update and monitor KPIs
• Prepare monthly reporting
• Monthly price update & Invoices Management

Your profile and competencies to succeed

What you need to join us?

• English language is mandatory as you will be speaking with people from all over the world.
• Master's degree/Engineering diploma in purchasing or similar

Who are we looking for?

• Innovation mindset and able to make proposals
• Able to drive multi-functional working teams
• Customer oriented (internal & external)
• Electronics understanding
• Computer skills
• Analytical skills
• Negotiation skills
• Eager to learn
• Open-minded, proactive and autonomous
• Able to provide "fresh eyes" on current organization
• Team player with an international mindset

What we can do for you

• At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
• We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
• We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us

FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.

With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.

In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.

As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.

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