Purchasing assistant

The TAP Group specialized in storage and handling equipment, in strong growth, is looking for an :

H/F PURCHASING ASSISTANT

Within the Group’s Purchasing Department, you will occupy a support position for the purchasing teams. You will be involved in a cross-functional manner with the various purchasing issues and will be able to carry out the negotiations entrusted to you on an ad hoc basis.

Vos missions

Preparation of purchasing processes

• Assist in the drafting of specifications in conjunction with the purchasing teams.
• Ensure a permanent market watch role for the purchasing teams: detection of strategic information for the company, analysis of certain key factors of market evolution.
• Set up and update supplier or product databases.

Supplier follow-up

• Monitor certain suppliers on a daily basis in order to provide them with permanent operational support and to quickly identify the need for action or reaction on the part of the company: quality incidents, supply incidents.

Administrative and logistic follow-up of purchases

• Ensure and analyze the production of dashboards for buyers and/or the purchasing department.

Description du profil :

Purchasing background preferably with an appetite for technical products, involved and proactive.

Good knowledge of purchasing methodologies and of all the stages of a purchasing process

Good command of IT tools (purchasing dashboards, supplier database, Excel, etc.))

Fluency in English is mandatory

Taste for numbers, good communicator, curious and open-minded, interpersonal skills, as there are many internal and external contacts
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