Lead Buying Procurement Specialist
Entreprise
Arabelle Solutions offers a broad portfolio of turbine island technologies and services that are used in more than a third of nuclear power plants globally – helping customers across the world deliver reliable power as they transition to a lower-carbon future. The Arabelle steam turbine is the most advanced of its kind and the company provides turbine island lifecycle support solutions for all nuclear reactor types – improving power output, reducing environmental footprint, and lowering operational cost. Arabelle Solutions has around 3,300 employees across 16 countries and is a subsidiary of EDF Group.
At Arabelle Solutions, we’re proud to design services and solutions that are generating power not just for today and tomorrow but for generations to come. You’ll work alongside passionate bright minds. We offer a broad range of opportunities for those eager to build tomorrow’s world. We believe a supportive culture is key to reach common goals. Diversity and an inclusive mindset makes us and our business stronger.
Poste
We are delighted to announce we are currently recruiting for a Lead Buying/Sourcing Specialist to join our team New build Project Procurement team in Poland. Within this role you will manage the sourcing process for a given set of goods, apply sourcing policy and act as an interface between the supplier and organization with respect to specifications and budgets. This role will require you to demonstrate good technical knowledge in the sourcing area combined with proactive and autonomous approach to deliver the assigned scope of purchases. You will act in a dynamic environment both as an individual and a team player to secure the required progress of the Project.
Role Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely release Purchase Orders for the assigned scope at the right time and right quality within the specified targets / budget.
- Bear commercial responsibility for the sourcing process for a given procurement package, i.e. initiate vendor request for quotations, bid evaluation, prepare the draft, etc., resulting in placing Purchase Orders in line with the project timeline.
- Organize/participate in technical – commercial discussions with the Supplier involving internal stakeholders as needed, conducts negotiations of pricing and contractual terms.
- Follow-up on the assigned procurement packages: manage relationships with suppliers for PO execution, including contractual notifications and management of claims to/from the suppliers.
- Manage timely invoice validation and release, update ERP system.
- Lead commercial qualification of all relevant suppliers to ensure they are qualified at all time.
- Contribute to the Team’s KPI’s, i.e On-Time-Delivery, Savings and Claim
- Utilize technical expertise and judgement to solve problems by leveraging your technical skills and analytic thinking.
- Effectively collaborate with Strategic Sourcing leaders for globalized and coordinated commodities as well as with other internal stakeholders across the organisation
- Be involved or lead some cost reduction and/or quality improvement initiatives related to sourcing activities
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Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college
- Demonstrable years of sourcing and procurement experience with in-depth experience in high-value and complex projects.
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills, with excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Accountability, resilience and autonomy; decision making and problem-solving skills, ability to work in a fast-paced international environment independently and with time constraints
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Very good command of English, oral and written.
- Available for business travel on incidental basis
Desired Characteristics to be considered:
- Experience within power generation, heavy industrial, aerospace would be beneficial
- Basic knowledge of Project Management would be ideal
- Exposure to Strategic Sourcing and/or Financial topics.
- Good awareness of legal/contractual aspects and risk management
- Able to adapt and work quickly to project situations.
- Be able to manage various workstreams at the same time.
- Experience on SAP, Microsoft packages including MS Project.
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