Buyer

Role: Buyer
Location: Cassis, France
Duration: 12 months (renewable)
Start date: ASAP

Key words: Purchase, Supply, Budget, Reporting, Accounting, Procurement.

Job Description:

• Register purchase requests and gather requirements.
• Benchmark potential suppliers for the project in France and abroad, in compliance with
  respecting VCGP quality, safety and ethical standards.
• Drawing up and validating bidder lists.
• Validate the budget and required delivery dates in accordance with the schedule and the
  project manager.
• Launch calls for tender for materials, equipment, services and subcontracting.
• Obtain quotations and clarify prices and deadlines work with the technician to check and validate technical verification and validation Follow up requests for clarification.
• Check and negotiate contractual and commercial conditions (price-guarantees-payment-indemnity clause or incoterm).
• Obtain the technical comparison table from the engineer.
• Draw up the commercial comparison table for approval.
• Co-ordinate with the legal department and contract engineers on all contractual negotiations
  terms and conditions.
• Prepare the contract for approval by the procurement manager and issue the contract.
• Draw up purchase orders and launch KoMs.
• Monitoring orders through to commissioning, reporting and communicating with project logistics
  with project logistics and all cross-functional players.
• Initiate and coordinate inspections, where applicable.
• Check supplier invoices for conformity and forward them to the accounting department.
• List suppliers in the database.

Qualifications:

• Bac + 2 minimum.
• Business school / business engineer.
• Purchasing training.
• Between 2- and 5-years’ experience.

Skills:

• English essential.
• Experience as a project buyer.
• Energy sector a plus.
• Ideally have a technical background in general mechanical engineering.
• Proven negotiation skills.
• Mastery of an ERP system and the office pack.
• Mastery of commercial law and customs regulations.
• Knowledge of the various tendering procedures.
• Autonomy and organisational skills.
• Mastery of negotiation techniques.
• Mastery of purchasing, stock and distribution management techniques.