Indirect Commodity Buyer Queluz

Indirect Commodity Buyer
Queluz
Queluz, Lisboa, Portugal

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Indirect Commodity Buyer – Europe to develop and optimize indirect procurement processes across Europe. This role is essential for ensuring cost efficiency, quality, and delivery performance while acting as a communication link between suppliers, operations, and sales.

A glimpse of your daily mission

• Support the Head of Purchasing in implementing purchasing strategies across international operations.
• Lead strategic sourcing activities, including market trend monitoring, spend analysis, supplier negotiations, and contract management.
• Develop and manage supplier relationships, ensuring performance and compliance.
• Align procurement with internal customers, operations and sales for smooth operations and processes.
• Ensure ERP system accuracy by updating supplier and customer key data.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance procurement processes.
• Travel across Portugal and Europe (20-30%) to engage with suppliers and stakeholders.

Your Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in procurement and commercial departments.
• Experience with commodity management in the indirect sector.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (Logistics, Inventory, Purchasing, Product Life Cycle Management, etc. ).
• Strong negotiation, communication, and
  - making skills.
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are a plus.
• Experience in demand/material planning and purchasing final goods.
• Ability to work in an international business environment.

About us

Haworth is one of the world's largest manufacturers of office furniture, providing solutions for tomorrow's customers worldwide. At the center of our work is the human being: What does a person need to work, what pushes them, motivates them and what makes people feel comfortable at work? Only if we can answer that question, we are able to introduce designs to our customers that will make them achieve their goals. To stay one step ahead, we invest in our own research, have a worldwide network of interesting partners and are part of think tanks around the world who are trying to think ahead. The
- owned company, headquartered in Holland, Michigan/United States, employs more than 8. 000 people and is represented in more than 150 countries in Asia, Europe and America with subsidiaries and partners.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing

• Industries

  Furniture

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