BUYER

About the Role

Build and develop market expertise with business entities from the sourcing phase through end-to-end execution to maximize business performance. Ensure the Purchasing process is properly executed through the supplier relationship life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Sourcing Strategy and Tactical Management:

• Contribute to sourcing strategy definition.

• Develop market expertise through portfolio segmentation and analysis of opportunities and threats in collaboration with business entities and under the guidance of the Category Manager.

• Perform PSA (Purchasing Strategy Assessment) and RMat wrap-up.

• Ensure market business model analysis and inflation monitoring.

• Define and challenge short and mid-long term needs of business entities.

• Evaluate/anticipate risks (notably business continuity) and implement mitigation action plans if needed on the portfolio scope.

• Regularly realize and update portfolio analysis (including spend, suppliers, internal partner risk, SWOT, action plan).

• Define supplier panel and segmentation in collaboration with the Category Manager and business entities.

• Deploy the defined sourcing strategy (corporate / regions or country) at the right level.

• Evaluation & Selection of New Suppliers:

• Prospectively evaluate new suppliers in accordance with the Purchasing category strategy.

• Realize benchmarks with other companies on the same scope of activities/markets.

• Define negotiation strategy and objectives and lead the negotiation process.

• Make tenders and negotiate: Request For Information (RFI), Request For Quotation (RFQ), Request For Price (RFP).

• Ensure relevance and accuracy of RFI, RFQ, RFP documents and challenge internal partners if needed (Except RMAT).

• Lead supplier evaluation and selection, choosing the most suitable suppliers in collaboration with business entities.

• Responsible for the realization of the homologation process of new sourcing/suppliers for RMAT.

• Establish New Contracts & Amendments:

• Lead negotiation and contracting with all internal and external stakeholders.

• Negotiate and have contracts/amendments signed with suppliers at the right level (Group or local) in collaboration with business entities, and in alignment with Purchasing category sourcing strategy.

• Ensure that contract content aligns with negotiation results and that the right performance indicators are specified.

• Ensure that contract elements can be implemented and monitored.

• Contribute to contract deployment in Michelin entities, with the Contract Manager Business lead.

• Supplier Relationship Management:

• Animate the supplier relationship management process to drive business performance.

• Lead Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process as a KSM (Key Supplier Manager).

• Animate introduction of innovative solutions in collaboration with suppliers and business entities (IWS: Innovation with Supplier).

• Evaluate and steer supplier performance (Business review, Supply review, SRM review) and implement a progress plan.

• Guarantee purchasing excellence of supplier interactions (digitalization of invoices, data quality).

• Support claims (contractual disputes, non-conformities, supply problems) with various stakeholders when needed.

• Address CSR stakes/ambition on the portfolio.

• Data Accountability:

• Accountable for the quality of purchasing & procurement data.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Purchasing process
• Supplier relationship management
• Market analysis
• Sourcing strategy
• Negotiation
• Contracting
• Risk assessment
• Business continuity
• SWOT analysis
• RFI, RFQ, RFP
• Homologation process
• CSR
• Digitalization
• Data quality
• Category Management
• RMAT
• PSA
• KSM
• IWS
• SRM