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VACANCY FOR Operational Buyer ( Fabrication - Purchase )

As a Buyer you are responsible for Based upon the input from the Purchasing Process and Supplier Forecast & Material Management and accordingly to the Replenishment Process, continuously secure the availability of material according to requirements from both internal and external customers.

The position / About the Job:

In this job the Operational Buyer would be responsible for:

Key Tasks and responsibilities:

• Analyse spending and business requirements and identify opportunities across our industry areas together with stakeholders
• Drive strategic procurement projects from business case to implementation
• Place and communicate material requirement via Purchase orders to suppliers and handle deviations within placed purchase orders, secure delivery on time and follow up on delayed orders.
• Receive and register order confirmations from suppliers, handle and communicate deviations.
• Purchase items for stock and/or project orders incl. min/max settlement.
• Handle deviations in supplier invoice and potentially authorize supplier payment.
• Secure right data on item numbers in local ERP system.
• Focus and follow up on results related to strategic goals: DOT, QA and cost.
• Support handshake process with idea generation.

What you can be?

Qualifications / Certifications: -

Mechanical / Production Graduate Engineer having 6-8 years of relevant experience in engineering/fabrication industry

Knowledge, Technical Skills and Nature of Experience

Knowledge :

• Good knowledge of Engineering Drawing, Costing as per drawing,
• Knowledge of fabrication processes of Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Reactors, Columns etc. required in process industries like Edible Oil, Evaporators & Breweries.
• Knowledge of different standards like ASME, PED U stamp etc..
• Knowledge about selecting, ordering and purchasing materials & sub contractors.

Skills :

MS Office, ERP system.

Behavioral/ Leadership Skills

• Positive attitude & Flexible.
• Energetic, Open & Communicative
• Result Driven
• High intregity and strategy perspective.
• Teamwork and team motivator (able to manage and develop relationships even in difficult circumstances).
• Be stress tolerance.

Why should you apply

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.
• Exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities to mingle and to learn.
• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success, you will be learning new things every day.

Interested?  Please apply for the position.

Note -

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.