VIE - Category Buyer - Mungia (Bilbao)

We are looking for a dynamic Junior Buyer to join our procurement team. This role bridges supplier management and strategic procurement initiatives, driving category strategies, supplier competitiveness, and change projects to ensure operational excellence and business continuity.

Main missions :

• Interface with category manager to collect ETO specifications, specify the qualification criteria and contribute to the segmentation of the strategy

• Contribute and implement the strategy (SOC) in the cluster perimeter

• Taking the category strategies into account, you will build & drive the category APOP (Annual Procurement Operational Plan) validated by Global Category & plant

• Negotiate global frame-agreement with cluster suppliers

• Initiate and drive Change of Supplier and Quality Value Engineering projects

• Develop supplier competitiveness and assess the quality level. React in front of deviations

• Organize lesson learnt per category (multi-supplier approach). Return of Experience on key projects or on ETO dimension

• Secure Supplier competitiveness on the commodity perimeter and the performance on negotiation lever

• Raise and address cluster supplier quality of service and business continuity

• Business Continuity first level for escalation

• Support Procurement Plant Manager and Group Manager on SRM strategy (Sponsorship, C2P, Business review)

• Good negotiation and communication skills
• Good analytical skills with excel and sensitive on the numbers
• Open minded & Result oriented / Teamwork Spirit / Open to Multi-Culture / Willing to learn
• English and Spanish Fluent (B2 required)