Senior Indirect Buyer with Italian (Engineering Services)

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Degree level qualification
• Good knowledge of indirect procurement (goods & services) - 3-5 years of experience in Professional/Engineering services commodities a must
• Experience in a relevant position
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP & SAP ARIBA are an advantage)
• Fluency in Italian and English
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills, willingness to take initiative, autonomy
• Good communication, collaboration and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your procurement expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll ︁︀​︈︈​︈︈​︁︈︂report to Ofelia Sasu (Procurement Operations Manager), and work alongside fun, motivated, and dedicated teammates.

You'll be in charge of procuring services required for Engineering activities in a geographical scope in line with commodity objectives and support supplier panel relationship (negotiation, specific agreement, local supplier performances). Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Commodity Management, Regional Procurement Director, Site buyers, Requesters, and their management), consolidating the commodity needs, and much more.

You’ll specifically set up full supplier selection process and support the deployment of commodity strategies, while ensuring that purchased goods and services are both cost-efficient and of high quality.

We’ll look to you for:

• Deploy the commodity strategy
• Prepare and launch of Request for Quotation
• Promote and support new buying channel implementation as per ramp-up objectives
• Coordinate with Project teams
• Vendor selection / Evaluation / negotiation of contracts and commercial terms/ Business case preparation and follow DOA (Delegation of Authority) approval flow
• Vendor onboarding until panel validation
• Closely working with Commodity manager team and tactical buyers on site in high value project requirement and upfront activities (tenders for catalog / framework agreements, identification of preferred suppliers)
• Generate innovative ideas for increased process efficiency & reduction in cost

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Be part of a large team with over 800 professionals in HR, Finance and Procurement & Supply Chain
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Utilise our Agile, Responsible and Inclusive working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning (Access to Alstom University and Alstom Learning Program)
• Professional Development Plan – we offer great opportunities to develop yourself within the company
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential (Competitive Salary and Meal Vouchers, FlexibleBenefits at your choice - on top of your salary, Holiday Bonuses (Easter, Christmas), Employee Loyalty Bonus, Reimbursement of telework expenses – for amount of days worked from home, Additional Bonuses - referral bonuses, /new-born bonus, discounts)
• Entitle to comprehensive and competitive social coverage (Life and Accident Insurance, Private medical subscription at Regina Maria and Private Pension)
• Work-life balance- we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of work (Working from Home 3 days/ week) and 25 days of annual leave
• Be part of our Social Corporate Responsibilities initiatives (Social events, Humanitarian Actions)

We create smart innovations to meet the mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. We design and manufacture a complete range of transportation systems, from high-speed trains to electric buses and driverless trains, as well as infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a truly global community of more than 70000 people dedicated to solving real-world mobility challenges and achieving international projects with sustainable local impact.

Through the diversity and complexity of its projects, Alstom is a very attractive employer for the young generations of Romanian specialists, giving them a unique chance to professionally grow in an international environment with access to worldwide knowledge and capabilities.

Alstom’s Shared Services Organisation in the city of Cluj-Napoca has three major business units in two locations, totalling over 700 employees: Finance, Human Resources and Procurement, providing specialised services to many countries in the group.