Senior Buyer

Job Description

Hybrid: This position requires an employee to be on site 3 times per week.

Senior Buyer

What you will do:

  • Acting in direct material purchasing of Metal Materials parts.

  • Meet the purchase requirements, receiving and analyzing internal specifications, seeking to identify potential suppliers to the process

  • Initiate and conclude negotiation considering the best price conditions, quality delivery time, through analysis of quotations and negotiations with suppliers

  • Support new projects, connecting directly with engineering; deployment of the requirements with suppliers; conclude negotiation leveraging best deal

  • Create supply agreements, through contracts, in order to generate savings in the negotiation of materials, equipment and services performed by the area

  • Availability of travel, infrequent, inside the region

  • Responding to internal customers for the quality of contracted products and services, interacting with stakeholders to meet established contracts

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor Degree with focus in Engineering, Administration, Foreign Trade Economics, or related.

  • +4 years of experience in similar positions. Knowledge of cost analysis & Purchasing experience is necessary.

  • Microsoft Office: Intermediate level.

  • English: Fluent/advanced level.

  • Availability to work in Sao Caetano Do Sul, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a hybrid regime (3 times a week in person).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Knowledge of Spanish(desirable).

  • Knowledge of PowerBI & SAP (desirable).

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