Procurement Buyer

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your sourcing and procurement expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented teammates.

You'll play a critical role in ensuring the timely delivery and quality of procurement projects, driving cost efficiencies, and fostering strong supplier relationships. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business, including Global and Regional Procurement, Platform and Project teams, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, and Engineering, to align on project objectives and deliverables, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of setting up the full supplier selection process, including preparing and launching Requests for Quotations and leading project negotiations, but also supporting the development and deployment of commodity strategies.

We’ll look to you for:

• Preparing and launching Requests for Quotations with suppliers

• Leading project negotiations

• Monitoring procurement project Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Technical (QCDT) objectives

• Coordinating projects with cross-functional teams

• Ensuring on-time delivery and quality, especially during ramp-up phases

• Supporting and contributing to commodity strategy and supplier panel management

• Managing supplier relationships and performance, including risk assessment and mitigation

• Promoting the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• A master’s degree in Engineering or Business

• Experience in sourcing or procurement (0-5 years)

• Understanding of supplier relationship management

• Knowledge of procurement processes and best practices

• A Master in Purchasing is desirable

• Ability to work in a matrix environment

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative team spirit

• Results-oriented with a rigorous and structured approach

• An international mindset

• Fluency in English

Things you’ll enjoy Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines

• Work with new security standards for rail signalling

• Collaborate with transverse teams and supportive colleagues

• Contribute to innovative projects

• Utilise our inclusive and flexible working environment

• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries

• Benefit from our investment in your development through award-winning learning opportunities

• Progress towards roles such as Commodity Manager or Procurement Manager

• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!