Category Buyer F/H

Job title:

Category Buyer F/H

Company

Schneider Electric

Job description

Job Description:At Schneider Electric, we are committed to solving real-world problems to create a sustainable, digitized, and new electric future.Your Role:You’ll take the lead in optimizing the sourcing of specific parts and products, focusing on sheet metal and steel raw material by managing several suppliers. Your expertise will be crucial in nurturing strong supplier relationships, driving continuous development, and ensuring flawless execution of our procurement plans.Be at the forefront of our industrial strategy as you spearhead the implementation of the category strategy across the region, shaping the Annual Procurement Operation Plan (APOP) for impactful results.Your mission:

• 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 category strategy
• Lead concentration plan on targeted suppliers while monitoring and eliminating business risks related to suppliers/supply
• Lead negotiations with strong preparation upfront (benchmark, Should cost, scenarios…)
• Identify & promote technical productivities (Quality Value Engineering and Change of Supplier) influencing related stake holders (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 Pole Category Manager / Regional Category Manager / Global Procurement Services, etc.
• Be the first escalation level for supplier crisis management

Your profile:

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) from an engineering school or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in procurement

Your skills:

• Influencing and negotiation
• Great agility, creativity to solve problem quickly
• Analytical skills
• Fast learner, open-minded, looking for opportunities to improve your leadership
• Ability to navigate in a complex and agile environment
• Project management
• Effective communication, intercultural skills
• Proficiency in office and digital tools
• Fluent in French and in English

We know that skills manifest in many ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the listed requirements, we still encourage you to apply.We offer you:Our offering includes an attractive compensation package and goes well beyond. If you join Schneider Electric, here’s an idea of everything we can provide for you to have the best possible experience:

• A competitive salary, an individual bonus, as well as profit-sharing and participation bonuses that reward everyone’s efforts.
• A range of benefits that make life easier: from employee committees to rich catalogs, a mutual insurance plan that meets all needs, funded savings and retirement plans, and an advantageous shareholding program.
• Professional development through training, mobility, and internal promotions (locally and internationally), skill sharing, etc.
• An onboarding journey from your first day to give you the keys to success at Schneider Electric within a culture that promotes diversity, professional growth, and inclusion.
• A work-life balance thanks to our remote work policy (up to 48% of the time eligible for remote work, equipment included), support for parenthood, inter-company childcare, etc.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporationsYou must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do. This extends to our Candidates and is embedded in our Hiring Practices.You can find out more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and our DEI PolicyAt Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust CharterSchneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.

Expected salary

Location

Eybens, Isère

Job date

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:43:24 GMT

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