Our client, a growing medical device company, one of the leaders on his area, is looking for a buyer to cover a maternity leave for 10 months and to join his team in Geneva area.
YOUR RESPONSIBLITIES :
Oversee sourcing activities including:
- Analyze and treat new sourcing demands from internal services
- Request list of functional points to pay attention and to control
- Request from Quality the confirmation about the GxP consideration and internal process
- Manage purchasing volumes based on Production Master Plans with logistics constraints
- Search, select, qualify new suppliers and ask for comparison for new demands.
- Reserve project item numbers to link sourcing documents
- Write book of specifications for suppliers and subcontractors
- Manage in autonomous some supplier audits
- Lead some meetings with internal services
Oversee purchasing activities including:
- Refer to GSS all negotiation intentions reaching a strategic amount
- Negotiate optimized prices, lead times, material quality, Minimum of Quantity, packaging
- Implement second sourcing strategy according to the supplier risk assessment
- Negotiate contracts such as Quality Agreement, Supply Agreement and After Sale Service
- Manager and follow purchase orders for prototypes and first series
- Maintain purchasing views in material master data and purchasing info records in SAP
- Manager Lean management for purchasing activities
- Follow annual evaluations of suppliers in his portfolio
- Establish material standard prices as base of each Fiscal Year and KPIs
YOUR PROFILE :
§ Master's degree in purchasing, international business and stock managing with minimum 5 years of experience in an industrial purchasing department.
§ Experience as supply planner or procurement specialist is required
§ Organized approach and able to work within tight deadlines
§ Good knowledge of SAP MM
§ Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, formulas and pivot tables
§ Strong communication skills both verbal and written French and English
