Buyer

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Buyer in Bucharest we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your expertise in a new cutting-edge field.  You'll:

• Build robust and competitive Tender Procurement cost and schedule commitment
• Ensure that the services and material costs & risks & savings are “assessed, challenged, validated and approved” in order to drive competitive tenders and profitable contracts.
• All Tender Procurement Plans are passing through the Procurement Tender validation & approval process (TPV).

We’ll look to you to:

• Define Tender Procurement strategy.
• Build the costing based on the formal TPP (Tender Procurement Plan, standard tool to be used to build the whole sourcing commitment)
• Securing the costing is robust and competitive
• Assess, jointly with the Tender team, the opportunity and risk related to early agreements with suppliers (“Pre-Bid agreement”), taking into account REX of similar experiences
• Full costing is in line with the document given in the tender Instruction For Quotations (IFQ) and the PTM conducts measures to strengthen costing by cross functional alignment such as the Sourcing Alignment Review (SAR)
• The risk management is properly managed. Costs are the most ambitious ones, risks are tracked in the RAMP
• Commit to standardize and maintain Procurement Product Reference costs with same Tender file format.

Supplier relationship:

• Support global supplier panel relationship
• Manage specific supplier panel relationship (negociation, specific agreement, local supplier QCDT performances) & supplier creation/change requests
• Monitor day to day suppliers performances and issues - QCDT

Commodity support on site:

• Consolidation of commodity needs, inputs
• Active participation to commodity strategy and panel elaboration
• Provide imputs to build differenciation
• Support of Commodity Manager in tender phase
• Represent the commodities towards projects, platforms and solutions.
• Effective teamwork with internal customers and stakeholders in problem solving
• Apply the Alstom Transport Sourcing process, and provide return on experience.

Involvement in projects:

• Coordinate project with all Metiers
• Prepare and launch of Request For Quotation with suppliers using the standard tool.
• Lead project negociation.
• Monitor sourcing project QCDT & legal project evolution (FAI, Business Award, Product development)
• Prepare & present Business Award
• Ensure project KPIs (Savings, Panel Management, EHS)

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: 

• Business school or Engineering degree
• Specialization in purchasing represents an advantage
• Fluent english & International background is an asset
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our dynamic, friendly and flexible working environment
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension) 

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.