Commodity Buyer

Professional represents for over 25 years, the most performing Romanian approach of complete human resources services on the market.

We define our approach and evolution through key-words like professionalism, dedication, promptitude, flexibility and ethics. We take pride of a reputation that obliges and challenges us to discover and develop new methods, designed to respond to our clients need.

Role
You will be in charge with purchasing goods and merchandise for the company, by analyzing buying trends, establishing relationships with suppliers and negotiating prices, in order to attain the overall objectives of best product quality, competitive cost, flexibility and assurance of supply.
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in Finance, Operations/Supply Chain Management or a technical discipline is preferred.
- Experience in industrial environment ( automotive industry or in similar roles ) or in purchasing department of minimum 3 years.
- Soft skills: negotiation, analytics, critical thinking, listening to customer, decision making, problem solving, building raport with suppliers;
- Interpersonal skills for building and maintaining relationships with vendors, getting feedback from customers, growing relationships with suppliers and being up to date with the relevant news in the industry.
- Expertise in using MS office mainly Excel and Power Point;
- Proficient in English, French is a big advantage..

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Participate at the global processes for developing new products, selecting suppliers and ensuring negotiating in order to optimize the contractual purchasing conditions
- Builds up the complete vehicle product offer in collaboration with buyers from other divisions
- Identify, attract and propose new sources of supply, make recommendations regarding additions/deletions to the Approved Supplier List
- Cultivate strong relationships with key suppliers
- Bring initiatives to improve internal and external supply chain processes
- Engage the Quality Department to evaluate and communicate supplier performance
- Negotiate Long Term Supply Agreements
- Investigate problems, completes root cause analysis, and assists in developing solutions for supply chain problems
- Ensure consistent reports towards other departments involved in supply chain.
- Ensures company supplies are maintained at an adequate inventory and reacts quickly to emergency situations
- Enforce and uphold the Company’s ethics policy regarding conflicts of interest, gifts, entertainment, illegal practices, bribes and gratuities
- Maintains a commitment to the company’s quality and vision statements.

Benefits:
- Work in a pleasant and friendly team, and also a highly professional environment where you will have the chance to learn on a daily basis, and develop your career;
- Competitive salary to fit your education, experience, and skills;
- Health coverage;
- Opportunity to work for a multinational company with global teams and clients;
- Mentoring program that will help you develop as a professional;
- Continuous training ;
- Fun working environment.