Purchasing Leader

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Purchasing Leader role at Chaberton Professionals

Chaberton Professionals is one of the recruiting divisions of Chaberton Partners. From our HQ in Lugano, we support client companies in the search and selection of middle and top management profiles. Our goal is to create success stories and enrich the talent pipeline within our client companies. For a leading manufacturing company operating in the retail sector, we are currently looking for a Purchasing Leader.

Role

  • Supervise the operational purchasing team, ensuring compliance with punctuality, quality, and efficiency standards.
  • Define, communicate, and monitor purchasing routines and rules, ensuring their consistent application across the team.
  • Act as the reference point for managing critical issues, aligning the purchasing function with other company areas (Planning, Product Development, Procurement, ..).

Main Responsibilities

  • Supervise the Purchasing team.
  • Oversee operational purchasing: order management, delivery monitoring, and timely resolution of deviations (delays, emergencies, discrepancies).
  • Coordinate with suppliers to promptly resolve issues related to delivery, quality, or quantities.
  • Implement corrective processes in collaboration with the Procurement team and internal stakeholders to prevent supply chain risks (supplier capacity management, compliance…).
  • Collaborate with Industrialization, Product, and Quality teams to ensure all technical approvals are available before order release.
  • Oversee the management of quality holds, returns from production sites, and DIBA anomalies, ensuring continuity of delivery plans.
  • Maintain constant interaction with Planning, Product Development, and Production to anticipate and respond to complex operational situations.
  • Monitor performance KPIs in collaboration with the KPI & Reporting Analyst and proactively propose process improvements.
  • Manage supplier performance reviews together with Procurement and the KPI & Reporting Analyst.

Requirements

  • Degree in Economics, Management Engineering, or equivalent.
  • 5–7 years of experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain, ideally in the retail sector.
  • Strong knowledge of ERP systems and digital tools.
  • Excellent command of Excel and Power BI (or equivalent tools).
  • English level B2 minimum; French knowledge is considered a plus.
  • Proven experience in managing and developing teams.

Soft Skills

  • Leadership in dynamic environments.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, especially under pressure.
  • Effective communication, internally and externally.
  • Strong results orientation.

Seniority level

  • Associate

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Purchasing

Industries

  • Manufacturing

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