Technical Buyer

Technical Buyer

Are you ready for the next step in your career?

If you answered yes, you might be the one we’re looking for This position is located in Araucária in Supply Chain team.

The key responsibilities of the role include:
- Ensure that negotiations and procurement are carried out professionally regarding commercial, legal and ethical aspects and in accordance with company instructions, rules and regulations.- Compliance oriented.- Collect relevant product knowledge of the Supplier market and act as local point between Suppliers and Internal Stakeholders regarding both products and services.- Request and evaluate quotations.- Negotiate with suppliers and place orders in accordance with current instructions.- Category Management for business area indirect material.- Managing your own supplier base.- Ensure optimal procurement by market scanning.- Carry out contract negotiating for optimizing purchase contracts.- Follow-up purchase orders to ensure that delivery takes place as agreed.- Deal with rejected and non-conforming components according to instructions.- Build supplier relationship and work with supplier development.- Contract management.- Establish and continuously develop strategies for your supplier base and category.- Suppliers base development.- Drive cross-functional teams focusing on effectiveness and cost savings.- Assure that Valmet purchasing strategy, purchasing policy and procedures are fulfilled.

In addition, to succeed in this position, you should have:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Administration.- Solid Purchase experience.- Experience in other Office software (e.g. Power Point, Word, Power BI) and advanced Excel.- Technical background in engineering (differential)- Knowledge in Lean processes and execution of improvements (differential).- Have acted as Project and Facilities Buyer (differential).- Experience with strategic sourcing process.- Experience working with ERP (Work with BaaN or SAP as differential).- Advanced English (written and oral, is essential).- Fluent Portuguese.- Strong influencing, good communication skills, proactivity, interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to achieve results in a matrix, global organization it is important for this position.- Desirable skills: well-structured and result-oriented, experience from project management and experience from leading others.

We offer:
We offer you an exciting and challenging job in a global environment and opportunities for professional development.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our South America team.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 17,500 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper, and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customer’s performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how - and above all, teamwork.