Job Title:
We are seeking a skilled Procurement Specialist to join our dynamic team within a truly international working environment.
Your Responsibilities:
* Focus on cutting procurement expenses to enable the company to invest in growth and people.
* Improve the company's profitability, quality, and project timelines through local strategy definition and implementation.
* Develop and execute procurement strategies for suppliers' panels, promoting globalization or substitution.
* Further develop category strategy, risk management, and reverse engineering to understand supply cost structures.
* Install KPIs to monitor strategy implementation and support business development activities.
* Establish state-of-the-art purchasing standards to implement procurement category strategies.
* Initiate and lead regional sourcing processes to meet capacity, quality, price, time limit, service, reliability, financial health, and technical backup objectives.
* Identify and source new suppliers, launch calls for tenders, and negotiate contracts with optimal terms.
* Manage and solve supplier-plant problems and establish approved supplier panels.
Requirements:
* University degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or Supply Chain (or equivalent).
* Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar position in the industrial sector (preferably in packaging).
* Fluent English, French, and Spanish; Portuguese is a plus, German and/or Italian are an advantage.
* Proficient in Office software.
* Excellent soft skills, business and emotional intelligence, and work ethics.
* Able to work with high self-responsibility, influential capabilities, intercultural and transversal management.
* Hands-on doer with entrepreneurial spirit, open-minded, autonomous, and structured person.
* Negotiation skills, results orientation, problem-solving, project management, facilitation, interpersonal skills, outstanding communication, and initiative.