Volvo
Location
Francia | Spain
Job description
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
Your mission will be divided into 2 roles:
1) Support Buyer for the Industrial Supplies portfolio
2) Support Buyer for the Packaging portfolio
Your main tasks and activities:
• Ensure the daily management of the indirect purchasing portfolios under your responsibility (orders/invoice dispute management/supplier negotiations/internal customer relations etc...)
• Collaborate with our local, regional or global counterparts and internal stakeholders to achieve the best results for Volvo in terms of cost, quality, delivery, technology while ensuring risk management and sustainability on our long-term contracts with our suppliers.
• Strengthen the competitiveness of the Volvo Group by understanding the business and market expectations of our suppliers.
• Manage and develop our supplier panel (categorization, segmentation, continuous performance evaluation...) while continuing to identify new suppliers in order to maintain the appropriate level of cooperation with our key suppliers.
• Negotiate to obtain optimal costs within your scope and manage Request for quotations.
• Contribute to the achievement of regional KPI targets.
• Interact as the main contact with all stakeholders. Prepare and submit KPI development axes with them.
• Identify and drive the sharing of best practices within the Volvo Group (participate in internal and external network to benchmark...).
• Support and deploy a purchasing strategy in line with your commodities.
Your service- and goal-oriented approach, as well as collaboration based on integrity and trust, are your strengths. You have also demonstrated perseverance, a positive mentality and analytical skills.
We also expect you to have:
• A significant experience in purchasing
• A strong appetite for negotiation
• Fluent English, in line with the position's international activity.
• A keen sense of curiosity, dynamism and autonomy.
• Good communication skills, with a real understanding of cultural relations and differences (international team).
• Agility and flexibility, with priority management mindset
• A good dynamic, you like challenging environments that will develop your skills
• Knowledge of project management in a purchasing environment
• Good IT skills (Office 365...) as well as knowledge of the TCO concept (Total Cost of Ownership)
• Proven perseverance, striving for continuous improvement and problem solving
• Good team spirit, you enjoy working in a multicultural environment and interacting with all company’s departments.
We are a team of 10 passionate and motivated colleagues based in France (Lyon) and Sweden (Göteborg). We are flexible, supportive and open to dialogue and exchange.
A stimulating work environment, recognition, professional progress, motivation, management, fun... The Volvo Group in France has been awarded the "Happy Trainees" label for the fifth year running, recognizing companies where it's good to do an internship or work-study program. We also won the "Great Place to Work" label, awarded to the best companies where the employee experience is based on trusting relationships and equality for all. If you too would like to be one of our Happy Trainees, apply now!
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Who we are and what we believe in
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Group Trucks Purchasing has 125 BSEK in purchasing annual spend and 2,550 supply chain partners in serial production. We deliver the best possible products and service that bring value to our customers through scouting and working with high performing supply chain partners. We support Volvo Group's mission ‘Driving prosperity through transport solutions' through sustainability, business ethics and innovation. Joining us means working in a global context with 1,400 colleagues from diverse backgrounds and different nationalities across 25 countries while contributing to the core business and results of Volvo Group.
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