Purchasing Specialist - L. 68/99

Working at bioMérieux means being involved long term with a pioneering, visionary and constantly growing company that allows its employees to live a stimulating and inspiring experience in a fulfilling work environment.

Reporting directly to the Purchasing Manager, you will cover purchasing operations for indirect expenses at site level for requests with value under 10k€, managing suppliers, ensuring contracts’ compliance, determining purchasing needs, analysing quotes, cost and product availability.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Negotiate with vendors and procure a wide variety of goods and services that  fit the needs of the internal customers;
• Ensures the administrative tasks as expected by purchasing procedures, for the correct application of procedures itself  and of the data concerned
• Support purchasing managers and buyers to manage certain purchasing tasks and manage administrative relationship with suppliers
• Manage data SAP (coherence of data), quality(supplier files), contracts archive in Pacta, administration LL, supplier data creation in Jaggaer,
• Data management and data cleansing for the suppliers of her competency
• Cooperation with finance department for PO deletion or correction
• Manages Opex purchase orders, providing products and services to the end users in order to satisfy their needs and improve their performances, following the full process from sourcing to delivery;
• Defines and implements cost improvement initiatives: seeks new suppliers based on best price, quality, availability, reliability;
• Reviews and optimize the preferred suppliers’ list and seeks better products/suppliers contributing to the operation’s performances by improving total costs; 
• In charge of a few commodities defining vendors in the panel, objectives and sourcing strategy;
• In charge of purchasing administration: creates and maintain data and documents linked with supplier database;  (price lists, payment means and terms, supplier dossier, contracts, NDAs)
• Contributes to maintain supplier quality file
• Assist purchasing manager and buyers in specific purchasing tasks (RFI,RFQ, comparisons, contracts…)
• Contributes to purchasing department reporting

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 2 years of experience within the Purchasing field

• Advanced spoken and written English

• Experience with negotiating, qualifying suppliers, contract management

• excellent communication skills and ability to work in inter-functional teams

• Technical background is a plus

• Be in possession of the requirements of the "collocamento mirato" according to l. 68/99

Location: Firenze, Bagno a ripoli