Buyer

Job Purpose

TechnipFMC is a leading technology provider to the traditional and new energies industry, delivering fully integrated projects, products, and services. The Buyer will be leading a purchase order negotiation in addition to participating in defining procurement strategies and activities to mitigate risk together with Sourcing, Engineering and Projects.

Job Description

• Participates in defining procurement strategies and activities to mitigate risk together with the project manager
• Capable of resolving commercial issues, and has advanced skills to manage purchase
• orders of high values and complexity.
• Fulfills strategic inquiring and purchasing activities within time and budget
• Makes sure all the information necessary for issuing the inquiry is available
• Checks purchasing conditions are applicable to the project and if not, reports to the Project Procurement Manager
• Expedites bids
• Conducts negotiations with vendors
• Prepares the purchase order documents in due time and checks for quality
• Identify and implement synergies between projects to maximize value creation working with category to follow strategies
• Identify execution and commercial risks and apply mitigations
• Continuously communicate order status with internal stakeholders, and ensure accuracy of system data.
• May serve as technical expert in a Purchasing domain
• Proactively support less experienced Buyers.
• Ability to drive improvement initiatives

You are meant for this job if:

• Bachelor’s degree in procurement, business administration, engineering or equivalent.
• Experience can compensate for lack of formal competency
• Minimum 5 years in related field or equivalent
• Experienced in applying applicable contractual and administrative terms.
• Experienced in SAP and other applicable business systems.
• Experienced in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) and Adobe Acrobat.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without restriction.  For this position we are not sponsoring or taking over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.