Green Hydrogen Lead Buyer

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Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Groupdevelops large-scale technological solutionsto meet the needs of our time: preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, producing sustainably, fighting against insecurity and facilitating access to renewable energy. His offering to enterprises, States and public bodies comes in the form of services and associated equipment for the energy, defense, industry, environment, transport and infrastructure sectors.

John Cockerill Renewables has been heavily involved in the energy transition for several years. The group is positioned as a world leader in the production of green hydrogen and Solar towers. John Cockerill Renewables has four business units, Solar & Thermal, Hydrogen, Integrated Renewable Solutions (IRS) and Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC).

Nature & Scope

The Lead Buyer Elecis responsible for purchasing all materials, equipment and services used in the course of the business. She/He will develop supply sources and purchase all materials and services to the Company’s exact business requirements and technical specifications, using group deals where specified, at competitive rates, within budget and ensuring deliveries can be made within project time frame up to quality acceptance and receipt. She/Hewill also ensure that all Procurement process and procedures are adhered to within John Cockerill.

Under the responsibility of the Procurement Manager H2 and in support of the different project teams and internal manufacturing, She/He will be responsible for managing all the necessary actions within your categories and purchasing scope. Her/his position is based in Seraing, but she/Hewill be required to travel occasionally (15 – 20%) in Aspach (Alsace, France).

Main Responsabilities

Project and Operational:

• Support to the pre-sales and projects to draft and launch tender packages, to source vendors and ensure their compliance with the requirements mentioned in the technical specifications.
• Negotiate prices and assess remaining negotiation margin to secure prices of materials, equipment and services that will be used by the Proposals/Estimating.
• Prepare and present comparative tables allowing project managers to make the right decisions allowing you to launch purchase orders.
• During the project execution, renegotiate with suppliers to optimize costs of materials, parts and services (TCO/TCP).
• Establishment of frame agreement with different supplier in each strategic country.
• Supervise the launch of purchase orders by the local buyer in accordance with the procedures and delegations in force.
• Follow up with suppliers and service providers to ensure delivery times and the quality of deliverables.
• Close the projects by highlighting the gains generated.
• Provide management with feedback on experience as part of a continuous improvement policy for the Purchasing function.
  

Strategic

• Understand and develop strategies relating to the categories of products and/or services for which you will be responsible and proactively lead initiatives to achieve objectives of the Procurement department.
• Establish and maintain dedicated strategies for the most critical categories considering priorities of H2 Energy sector in strategic sourcing actions.
• Identify, qualify and evaluate new suppliers and partners in collaboration with stakeholders and the Quality department.
• Rationalize existing vendor’s database.
• Provide Proposal/Estimating department with all the unit price references and necessary elements, in order to support them to establish budgets for categories (materials, equipment and services) for which you will be responsible.
• Negotiate, draft and conclude framework contracts and partnerships for high-potential products and services, within the framework of John Cockerill group’s Procurement strategy and policy.
• Assess suppliers in accordance with ISO 9001 quality system
• Implement metrics / KPIs to continuously assess vendor’s performances of the categories you will be responsible for.
  

Profile

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a role as lead buyer or category manager within an industrial and international context
• Master in procurement, purchasing, technical/engineering and/or sales.
• Project management certification (PRINCE2, CPM, etc.) preferred.
• Profound knowledge of sourcing, RFI/RFQ, supplier qualifications, purchasing process in project mode, management of strategic vendors.
• Evolved within technical environments with complex products.
• Deep negotiation skills, honest with impeccable ethics, teamwork, strong cross functional leadership skills
• Curious, good Communicator, pragmatic, and diplomat while being firm and pugnacious if necessary.
• Excellent command of English (oral and written)
• Proficient in SAP, MS Office (Words, Excel, PowerPoint) and Power BI.
  

The responsibilities specified above are not an exhaustive list of job requirements. The Lead Buyer Elec may be asked, depending on the business needs and its resource, to carry out other activities related to its skills and expertise.

John Cockerill Renewables offers you more than just a job or a career, but above all the opportunity to work on attractive projects. It is the opportunity to participate in the world of tomorrow! You will have the opportunity to touch the very concrete, very technical aspects of the projects but also the opportunity to be creative and to propose innovative solutions! Do you want to take up the challenge?

We offer you a career in a dynamic and ambitious group, aware of the value of its first resource, its employees. This opportunity is an entry point to a future that you will be responsible for creating in our mutual interest.