Buyer (Bulk Material)

Role & responsibilities

• Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events.
• Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
• Provide inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
• Provide comprehensive understanding of regional stakeholder and procurement landscape.
• Monitor continuous regional supplier and stakeholder relationships.
• Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of noncontracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Fluent or Advanced English level
• Proven experience in purchasing chemicals and ingredients for the industry
• Direct (Chemicals, Packaging, Ingredients), and indirect materials procurement (Spare Parts & Equipment and Maintenance & Technical & Professional & Facility Services procurement)
• Experience with SAP and a strong industrial background