About the job
The Project Buyer plays a crucial role in enhancing project margins, ensuring cost efficiency, negotiating effectively, and managing projects from inception to completion while collaborating with various teams across the organization. This position acts as a project leader within the purchasing function.
As a key player in the department, the successful candidate will be highly proficient in utilizing various information systems and Excel. The Project Buyer will be responsible for:
• Improving contractual margins (CM) by meeting set objectives while ensuring timely delivery and required quality.
• Guaranteeing the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) possible and negotiating with suppliers to enhance contract profitability.
• Managing all purchasing aspects of assigned projects, starting from needs consolidation, planning, and moving through the tendering phase.
• Collaborating with project teams and commodity buyers to drive supplier selection, utilize standard or existing products, oversee successful engineering part development, and ensure supplier qualification and/or type parts within deadlines, contributing to APQP and monitoring suppliers during development.
• Acting as the liaison between technical development, family buyers, quality assurance, supply chain, and suppliers.

