Junior Purchaser Apprentice

Summary

Join Owkin's fast-growing and dynamic team as a Junior Purchaser to develop purchasing within the company, occupy a key position, and bring creativity and rigour to the implementation and monitoring of the purchasing process.

Requirements

• Coming from a Bac +4/5 training in a business school/university
• First experience in a Purchase department
• Knowledge of call for tenders, purchasing standards and procedures, purchasing techniques as well as negotiation techniques, contractual obligations (conditions for setting up contracts)
• Strong sense of analysis and organisation, autonomy, strength of proposal and negotiation, rigour, ability to work on several projects simultaneously, interpersonal skills and good communication
• Interest for technical and scientific topics
• A minimum intermediate level (B2) in written and spoken English
• Flexibility and ease in working in a constantly changing environment

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development and implementation of purchasing strategies to ensure short and long term optimization
• Maintain purchasing procedures and ensure compliance with their application
• Participate in the identification and sourcing of suppliers and contribute to the negotiations of the applicable commercial conditions in compliance with the Purchasing policy
• Launch and manage tenders when required
• Develop and manage the relationship with internal stakeholders: identify, analyse expenses and challenge their needs
• Manage the purchase requests and purchase orders follow up in our Purchase to Pay tool and improve continuously the tool
• Implement the monitoring of agreements (contracts, NDA…) with the support of the legal department

Benefits

• Flexible work organization
• Friendly and informal working environment
• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds