For our Client, company located in Kraków, we are currently looking for a person interested in the role of:
Senior Sourcing Buyer - Corporate Services EMEA
Kraków
Nr ref.: 6555
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Management, Accounting, Finance or Economics - preferred
- 2 years of professional experience in corporate purchasing role - would be an advantage
- Alternatively experience in sales combined with anticipated skills for purchasing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English - essential
- Analytical skills - a must, as well as negotiation skills
- Experience with SAP/BW and MS office tools would be an advantage
- Travel requirement up to 40%
Responsibilities:
- Negotiate and cooperate with suppliers to ensure on-time and/or effective support in services deliveries in accordance with IP EMEA facilities’ requirements
- Proactively seek cost reduction through research, communication and planning as well as through applying effective purchasing techniques
- Seek cost improvements in purchased products
- Collect and analyze services spend data IP EMEA-wide
- Correlate data with underlying market drivers
- Manage relationship with existing suppliers and seek new opportunities
- Serve as liaison between the mill/plant and suppliers
- Provide mills with detailed and timely information about terms and conditions of procurement contracts
- Support contracts’ implementations
- Assist with data entry and compliance reporting
- Support change management and stakeholder’s engagement
We offer:
- Our environment is multinational, dynamic, and many interesting challenges await you. We are proud of our upbeat, dedicated and professional employees
- Very effective on-boarding process that will help you settle in and feel comfortable with the job and your customers. We will teach you about papermaking, our business processes and how to manage orders in our internal system
- We will show you how we build and manage long lasting relationships with our customers, so that you can learn and develop your interpersonal and intercultural communication skills
- We will provide you with development opportunities such as soft skills and technical training, our internal job shadowing program and foreign language classes. You’ll also have the chance to be involved in business projects or the implementation of process improvements
