Role

• Supervise the operational purchasing team, ensuring compliance with punctuality, quality, and efficiency standards.
• Define, communicate, and monitor purchasing routines and rules, ensuring their consistent application across the team.
• Act as the reference point for managing critical issues, aligning the purchasing function with other company areas (Planning, Product Development, Procurement,..)

Main Responsibilities

• Supervise the Purchasing team.
• Oversee operational purchasing: order management, delivery monitoring, and timely resolution of deviations (delays, emergencies, discrepancies).
• Coordinate with suppliers to promptly resolve issues related to delivery, quality, or quantities.
• Implement corrective processes in collaboration with the Procurement team and internal stakeholders to prevent supply chain risks (supplier capacity management, compliance…).
• Collaborate with Industrialization, Product, and Quality teams to ensure all technical approvals are available before order release.
• Oversee the management of quality holds, returns from production sites, and DIBA anomalies, ensuring continuity of delivery plans.
• Maintain constant interaction with Planning, Product Development, and Production to anticipate and respond to complex operational situations.
• Monitor performance KPIs in collaboration with the KPI & Reporting Analyst and proactively propose process improvements.
• Manage supplier performance reviews together with Procurement and the KPI & Reporting Analyst.

Requirements

• Degree in Economics, Management Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5–7 years of experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain, ideally in the retail sector.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems and digital tools.
• Excellent command of Excel and Power BI (or equivalent tools).
• English level B2 minimum; French knowledge is considered a plus.
• Proven experience in managing and developing teams.

Soft Skills

• Leadership in dynamic environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills, especially under pressure.
• Effective communication, internally and externally.
• Strong results orientation.