Buyer – Project Sourcing & Tendering

We are currently looking for a Project Buyer to strengthen the Marine & Ports Global Sourcing Center team at EUOPC Ostrava, a division of ABB's Process Automation.
The Marine & Ports Global Sourcing Center Team is a highly efficient and compact group dedicated to assisting the Marine & Ports division in global projects. This team plays a crucial role during the early budgetary phase and is responsible for worldwide strategic procurement and ensuring the availability of essential resources. You can find team footprint on every huge Maritime project across the world. Additionally, the team collaborates closely through Cross-Functional Team (CFT) arrangements with other teams across EUOPC and Marine & Ports division to ensure seamless project execution.

Your role and responsibilities:

Tendering phase:

• Sending RFQs to suppliers
• English communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders on daily basis (95% of daily communication is in English only)
• Engaging in commercial negotiation
• Addressing contractual conditions
• Conducting bid evaluation
• Developing and regularly updating tender sourcing plans
• Verifying that tender costs and other conditions align with budgets and baselines.
• Performing change management (revisions)
• Exploring new suppliers and technologies for specific projects
• Collaborating with sales, technical, project management teams in the USA, Finland, Norway, Singapore, and China.

Strategic procurement:

• Exploring new suppliers and technologies
• Managing and coordinating supplier onboarding process, involving relevant stakeholders
• Close cooperation with Global Category Management
• Ensuring the update of all relevant systems in alignment with project requirements

ERP systems:

• You will be working in the following ERP systems: SAP, SAP Ariba, PowerBi, ABB Procure, MS Teams

Contracts

• Contracts are predefined
• In this scenario, you will collaborate with Country Legal Advisors to refine and negotiate specific details

Meetings

• Acting as the representative of the procurement team in interactions with project management, sales, and the technical team.
• Participation on following meetings:

1. regular bid clarification meetings
2. routine procurement progress meetings
3. consistent meetings with technical and sales teams
4. project management meetings
5. global procurement team meetings

Traveling

• During the trial period, you may be asked to spend one week in Norway or Finland
• Following the trial period, you will be expected to visit our colleagues in Finland and Norway twice a year
• Supplier visits will be arranged upon special request
• In total, travel is anticipated to account for approximately 5% of your total work time

Qualifications for the role

• High school / university education (technical field is an advantage)
• Experience as a buyer in the technical field
• English language on the communicative level (daily written and oral communication, minimum B2)
• Be very pro-active in communication with suppliers and customers (search and negotiation)
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with a diverse range of individuals across various positions and locations
• Ability to manage complex tasks with a lot of unknown variables during project tender phase
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Understanding the processes and organization of multinational companies
• Experience in MS Office – Excel (orientation in pivot tables, etc.) & Power Point

Benefits:

• Flexible working hours
• Option to work from home (Home Office) with a financial contribution
• Annual financial bonus
• 25 days of vacation
• Annual salary review
• Opportunity for further career growth in the Czech Republic and worldwide
• MultiSport card
• Meal allowance
• Contribution to the benefits portal (2-3% of monthly salary)
• Referral bonus for recommending a new employee
• Opportunity for education – internal/external professional courses, language courses, and conferences
• Company events (Christmas party, team buildings, family days, and more)
• Assistance line – professional psychological counseling
• Additional leave for extraordinary life events and support for expectant parents
• Office with good transport accessibility
• Accident insurance
• Discounts on ABB electrical installation materials
• Discounts with our partners (electronics, gastronomy, car purchases, train travel, etc.)

We look forward to your application. To learn more about ABB, visit our website at www.abb.com.

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