Job title:  Strategic Buyer

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

This position holder has the overall responsibility and accountability for developing and managing regional supply chain for Service to support regional business strategy. The person is responsible for developing, communicating, and implementing winning category strategies for managed categories in a region, in line with global divisional guidelines. The position strives to develop state of art supply chain under scope in cooperation with relevant regional and global functions, while maintaining good relationships with suppliers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for defining and implementing category strategy for managed categories and for this purpose: analyze current suppliers in terms of performance, competitiveness, compliance and sustainability, analyze market opportunities and execute category strategy and its business objectives.
• Pre-qualify new suppliers in SRM system and hold data and information related to suppliers and agreed commercial conditions accurate and updated in all relevant information systems and databases.  
• Source equipment and services on market, understand and assess specifications and needs of stake holders, run RFI and RFQ processes, propose best suppliers to become Andritz FB preferable suppliers.
• Negotiate and contract agreements with suppliers in line with targets and company needs.
• Build and manage relationship with key suppliers to enhance added value.
• Manage sustainability, and compliance of suppliers over the life of the contract, monitoring both Andritz and Supplier adherence to contractual agreements.
• Drive total cost of ownership reduction, through joint process improvements with internal and external stakeholders.
• Represent Supply Chain area in project execution teams and execute all supply chain management related project activities.
• Execute operational procurement activities and appropriate procurement administrative processes related to the order to pay for PS purchased equipment and services in Andritz SAP, other tools and applications dedicated for this purpose.
• Provide necessary support and coordination to other areas of organization regarding managed suppliers and categories.
• Manage implementation of Safety and Environmental requirements within Andritz supplier base

TECHNICAL SKILLS (knowledge)

• Market knowledge and business understanding of purchased equipment and services.
• Market analysis
• Category strategy development, management, and implementation
• Basic legal, finance and cost management skills
• Operational procurement knowledge and skills
• Safety and Environmental requirements
• Technical drawings and specifications knowledge
• SAP and other procurement information systems knowledge and skills. (SRM, Quots, CoQ,etc.)

SOFT SKILLS (skills and behaviors)

ORGANIZATIONAL #1ANDRITZWay
Customer Focus:
Ownership for Performance 
Shared Commitment
Openness

POSITION

• Strategic and Systemic Vision: ability to look for a process in overall, understand the interactions, interdependencies and impacts from the different perspectives to the whole process. Ability to analyze situations with critical and conclusive view to propose solutions.
• Communication skills: ability to express ideas and concepts in a clear and consistent manner verbally and with utilization of visualization tools.
• Analytical and Synthetic skills: ability to collect data, analyze and summarized them, and come to relevant conclusions
• Negotiation skills: ability to set negotiation objectives based on range of possible agreement, negotiation strategy, conduct bargaining and achieve the best possible agreement while preserving win-win long term relationships with suppliers, colleagues, other Andritz divisions.
• Interpersonal relationship skills: ability to connect to people inside and outside of organization and influence them, ability to teamwork in a fluid and effective way in person and virtual basis.
• Prioritization and time management
• Execution Discipline: ability to deliver results in an effective and systemic manner, having total focus in achieving the goals.
• Project management skills: ability to lead projects of cross-functional teams, meet project’s deadlines, budget, and targets.
• Self-Learning: the ability to pursue improving competencies and knowledge, adopting and sharing best practices
• Proactive and able to work independently
• Customer and result oriented with playing to win and value creation mindset
• Integrity with strong adherence to ethical principles and values in business conduct
• English and Dutch on a professional level.

SCHOOL EDUCATION

Minimum    Business Administration/ or Supply Chain Management
Desirable    SCM or Strategic sourcing education

EXPERIENCE

Experiencie    At least 5 years’ experience in an international industrial environment in Supply Chain Management or strategic sourcing positions is essential
Industrial Sector    Automotive, energy, wind, rail, marine machinery (by education and /or experience) is preferred

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.