Indirect Buyer VIE

Indirect Buyer VIE

Date: 23 Jan 2025

Location: Montreal, CA

Company: Alstom

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

ALSTOM has an opening for an Indirect Sourcing Buyer to be located at its Montreal, Quebec office. The Buyer will be responsible for sourcing indirect commodities related to ALSTOM operations across Canada and the USA while meeting or exceeding quality, cost and delivery objectives. These include a variety of goods and services to support operations as instructed by management. The Buyer’s objectives are to meet and exceed cost savings targets, quality and delivery performance, and expected service levels. He/she will also get involved with legal, finance, quality and safety matters to ensure supplier compliance to the terms of the contracts and ALSTOM’s standards.

The Buyer will execute sourcing strategies, identify bid lists, carry out RFQs, define and implement cost saving and service level improvement plans. In addition to suppliers, this role will interface with multiple internal customers (Engineering, Operations, Human Resources, Finance, etc.) and technical support teams. The work will be done in accordance to ALSTOM’s processes to achieve a world-class quality and delivery of services and goods at the lowest cost while managing risks to ALSTOM.

The Buyer will also manage company tools related to vendor management, e-procurement platform, and catalogues. After the initial training phase, the Buyer will administer and coordinate, on behalf of the indirect sourcing team, collection of documentation, process compliance checks and proactively update price lists, catalogues while resolving technical issues.

In this role, the Buyer will support management during internal and external audits demonstrating compliance to processes and the use of best practices in the day-to-day work.

This position will report to the Country Sourcing Director and Regional Indirect Sourcing Manager and will work closely with the Indirect Sourcing and Commodity Management teams.

Travel is estimated at less than 10%.

Qualifications

• One plus year experience in indirect sourcing, or sourcing related activities
• Demonstrated ability to develop and successfully implement cost savings plans and ideas
• Demonstrated ability to develop with internal stakeholders scopes of work, KPIs and SLA
• Demonstrated ability to lead vendors’ relationship management and performance assessment
• Experience in managing and resolving commercial and contractual issues with suppliers
• Experience or general knowledge of e-procurement tools
• Data gathering and analysis competencies
• ‘Customer service’ approach to the work and teamwork attitude in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Ability to work in a matrix organization with multiple sites
• Organizational skills including the ability to prioritize, handle multiple projects, meet deadlines and take decisions independently within the authorized powers
• Professional interpersonal verbal and written communication skills in a multi-cultural environment
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in SAP or other ERP systems preferred

Languages:

• Proficiency in both English and French is required

Educational Qualifications:

• Master Degree required, specialized in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Economics, or Business

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

Job Type: VIE