Role: Buyer
Location: Cassis, France
Duration: 12 months (renewable)
Start date: ASAP

Key words: Purchase, Supply, Budget, Reporting, Accounting, Procurement.

Job Description: Register purchase requests and gather requirements. Benchmark potential suppliers for the project in France and abroad, in compliance with 
respecting VCGP quality, safety and ethical standards. Drawing up and validating bidder lists. Validate the budget and required delivery dates in accordance with the schedule and the 
project manager. Launch calls for tender for materials, equipment, services and subcontracting. Obtain quotations and clarify prices and deadlines work with the technician to check and validate technical verification and validation Follow up requests for clarification. Check and negotiate contractual and commercial conditions (price-guarantees-payment-indemnity clause or incoterm). Obtain the technical comparison table from the engineer. Draw up the commercial comparison table for approval. Co-ordinate with the legal department and contract engineers on all contractual negotiations 
terms and conditions. Prepare the contract for approval by the procurement manager and issue the contract. Draw up purchase orders and launch KoMs. Monitoring orders through to commissioning, reporting and communicating with project logistics 
with project logistics and all cross-functional players. Initiate and coordinate inspections, where applicable. Check supplier invoices for conformity and forward them to the accounting department. List suppliers in the database.
Qualifications: Bac + 2 minimum. Business school / business engineer. Purchasing training. Between 2- and 5-years’ experience. Skills:  English essential. Experience as a project buyer. Energy sector a plus. Ideally have a technical background in general mechanical engineering. Proven negotiation skills. Mastery of an ERP system and the office pack. Mastery of commercial law and customs regulations. Knowledge of the various tendering procedures. Autonomy and organisational skills. Mastery of negotiation techniques. Mastery of purchasing, stock and distribution management techniques.