Category Buyer (Sheet Metal)

The role is part of Badr Procurement organization within the International region, based in Egypt, at Badr Plant. The role will manage the relationship between Schneider & the suppliers. Category Buyer will act as the main SPOC of the suppliers under his/her responsibility, leading business continuity, driving strategy, supplier base development and optimisation, and enhancing digital and sustainable with the supplier and their supply chain.

This role has the key interface with the plant covering procurement activities and suppliers’ management:

• Interface with the category manager to collect ETO specifications, specify the qualification criteria and contribute to the segmentation of the strategy

• Contribute and implement the strategy (SOC) in the cluster perimeter

• Taking the category strategies into account, you will build & drive the category APOP (Annual Procurement Operational Plan) validated by Global Category & Plant.

• By cooperating with the Global category & SLD and quality team, you will build the supplier development plan and support its deployment from the supplier side

• Negotiate global frame agreements with suppliers

• Develop supplier competitiveness and assess the quality level.

• Ensure supplier readiness, supplier capacity to deliver on G ETO growth

• Organize lesson learnt per category (multi-supplier approach).

• Secure Supplier competitiveness and upstream readiness on the category perimeter and the performance on the negotiation lever

• Improve DTDD – DPO with suppliers to drive Cash

• Create, manage and track all productivity actions in a dedicated tool (iSave)

• Raise and address “cluster” supplier quality of service and business continuity

• Business Continuity first level for escalation

• Support PPM and Group Manager on SRM strategy (Sponsorship, C2P, Business review)

• Supplier base next generation, supplier selection connected with Category Strategy

• Coordination with Customer Project Buyers on key projects and opportunities, supporting cost competitiveness to win the business profitably

Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering with solid experience in Sheet Metal.

• 4-6 years’ experience in Procurement Management, capable of defining category strategy, and influencing the stakeholders.

• A degree in Procurement, Supply Chain from a leading institution with excellent academic credentials is preferred.

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.

• Be able to navigate in a complex environment and organisation, connect with people and create strong networking

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to convince & influence a large network of internal/external stakeholders.

• Strong analytic skills

• Excellent presentation skills

• Business Acumen

• Ability to demonstrate strong capabilities in:

  • Leadership
  • Digital
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Capabilities to innovate in our practices and drive transformations (transformative and disruptive mindset)
  • Customer centric
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Cross-cultural awareness
  • Entrepreneurship behaviour
  • Technical capability to understand their purchases deeply
  • High level of adaptability and change management, ability to learn and grow quickly.
  • Capability of handling multiple tasks and priorities
  • Have full accountability and leadership of the topics, managing end-to-end governance
  • Strong Customer focus with an understanding of the Supply chain and Quality process

• Proficient experience in Microsoft Office Products, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Mastering AI