Senior Buyer

Buyer

What Will You Do? Ensure the best Quality, Cost and Delivery Conditions to supply Sheet Metal (K3 category) and Steel raw material (A1 category) to several plants within North America Region. Aligned with the Corporate Strategy, you are in charge to implement the best terms and conditions with suppliers to achieve on a sustainable basis, the targets allocated to the team and the Purchasing Department (Yearly Productivities, Suppliers Quality & Deliveries performances).

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the operational relationships with allocated suppliers and drive sustainable competition into the supplier panel.
• Manage the Request for Quotations and offers selection in consistency with the commodity strategy.
• Lead concentration plan on targeted suppliers for Schneider Electric while securing business risks.
• Execute the supplier strategy on targeted suppliers for Schneider Electric while securing business risks.
• Lead/participate to yearly negotiation with other Departments.
• Identify/implement Technical productivities (QVE), Supplier Change (COS) with related actors (Business Unit, Material Productivity Leaders, Suppliers).
• Whenever bearing a role of SSL (Schneider Supplier Leader), lead a global approach (Global negotiation, Should Cost approach and Lean initiatives for allocated suppliers).
• Contribute to the purchasing database/tools updates by providing necessary information to commodity managers/supplier leaders/purchasing assistant.
• Be the first escalation level for supplier crisis management.

Qualifications

We know skills and competencies show up in many different ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

This job might be for you if you fit the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Management or Engineering with 3 years of experience in Purchasing/Procurement.
• Fluent in English.

Hard-skills:

• Negotiation skills.
• Purchasing skills (Cost, Supplier Management, Cost analysis, Market analysis, Tools...).
• Fluent in English.
• Legal aspects, risk analysis, contracts setting.
• Financial aspects with good knowledge of Excel.
• Business knowledge and trade-off (Service Vs cost, Total Cost of Ownership).
• Quality and supply chain knowledge.

Soft-skills:

• Open minded & Results oriented.
• Leadership skills with the ability to influence.
• Teamwork spirit & Open multi-culture.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate, organize and work with Plant Top Management Team and purchasing people.
• Good Analytical skills.
• Able to identify and manage priorities.
• Customer focused.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization.

Schedule: Full-time

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