Project Purchasing Manager

Sitting in the Purchasing department, our team dedicated to purchasing bears a lot of responsibility in the current market situation. Divided into 3 teams (direct, indirect, and projects), they all work together to source and provide L-Acoustics with the best quality resources at the lowest price within the most reasonable time frame possible

We are looking for a bright project purchasing manager to join the project purchasing team.

What You Will Contribute To

Reporting to the Head Of Project Purchasing, the Project Purchasing Manager will be responsible for anticipating innovations likely to meet R&D needs, and for steering and coordinating purchases relating to various new projects, in particular :

• Participate in the identification and integration of new technologies dedicated to projects.
• Participate in drafting specifications with the project team (R&D, industrialization and quality teams).
• Build, upstream, a panel of target suppliers with commodities and ensure the deployment of commodity strategies in projects.
• Manage supplier integration to optimize quality, costs and lead times.
• Define and control communication and any exchange of content between project teams and suppliers.
• Ensure validation of each project milestone relating to suppliers in terms of costs, quality and deadlines.
• Manage contractual aspects to protect the company's intellectual property.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• Master’s degree from an engineering school (general knowledge of electronics, plastic injection, cutting processes…)
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a project purchasing expert, or a combination of project management in an industrial setting (methods, industrialization) and a purchasing function
• Excellent sense of humility, simplicity and partnership : our vision for our suppliers is long term, it is essential to build good relationships with them
• A business level English proficiency. Other european languages are a plus (French, German…)
• Ability to forge internal links with R&D, teamwork skills (quality, supply chain, production constraints), project leadership skills
• Rigor, familiar with financial aspects of project management