Buyer

**Country**:
Spain
**Location**:
Narciso Monturiol Poligono Industrial Llanos De Jarata S/N, 14550 Montilla, Spain
**Role**: Buyer

**Location**: Montilla, Cordoba (Spain)

**Contract type**: Full time

**Build a career with confidence**

At Carrier, you’re joining the world leader in healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. We create solutions that matter for people and our planet - and our employees are the heart of it all. We are a company of innovators and problem-solvers who are united by _The Carrier Way_ - our vision, values and culture.

As an employer of choice, we strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and retains the best talent, promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. In short, Carrier’s greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees - and we’re excited for you to join the team.

**About the role**

The main role of the Buyer will be to define and/or contribute to the development of the purchasing strategy and implement it. Ensuring the conditions of safety, ethics, compliance, quality, timeliness, supply, and innovation of the products and services within your assigned supplier portfolio.

You will join a committed purchasing team. You will be in charge of the indirect purchasing (facility services, energy, logistics and transports, fleet, tools, etc,) but you must be flexible to collaborate with the rest of the team in charge of direct purchasing contributing to a high team performance

**Benefits**

We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all our employees and enhancing our programs when necessary.
- Benefit from our great workplace environment and culture
- Have peace of mind and body with our health insurance
- Competitive salary and social benefits package
- Drive forward your career through professional development opportunities.

**Requirements**:
As a minimum you must have:

- Engineering or Economics bachelor’s degree
- 3 or more years of experience as a Buyer or experience in purchasing activities in or sales negotiation in the HVAC industry
- Fluent in both oral and written Spanish and English language.
- Valid UE work permit

It would be nice if you have:

- Excellent analytical thinking and problem solving
- Negotiation and conflict management ability
- Able to take initiative and to work independently
- Excellent planning and organization skills to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to work under
- pressure and to commit to tight and changing deadlines
- Team Player with excellent communication skills.

**Responsibilities**

As a Buyer you’ll be responsible for:

- **Define the purchasing needs to be carried out**:Analyse current and future needs (technologies, volumes, cost objectives, quality, safety, logístical, ethical, and compliance constraints). Participate in drafting technical and functional specifications along with internal stakeholders, define selection criteria and timeline. Analyse the supplier market.
- ** Identify suppliers present in the markets that can meet the company's needs**: Preselect them if necessary. Conduct technological and economic surveillance activities in the market. Launch and analyse requests for proposals.
- ** Prepare the consultation/selection file in collaboration with internal stakeholders**: Launch inquiries or requests for proposals (RFI/RFQ [request for information/quotation]). Analyse offers and make recommendations. Define the purchasing strategy.
- ** Define and/or contribute to the development of the purchasing strategy**:Rationalize the supplier panel. Present this strategy to the management and obtain their validation. Implement the purchasing strategy. Regularly reassess the purchasing strategy. Negotiate, select, and formalize contracts.
- ** Prepare the negotiation with selected suppliers according to the strategy and define the negotiation terms**:Select or oversee the selection of the supplier according to technical specifications. Negotiate purchase conditions: price, quality, timeline, volume, capacity, logístical conditions, etc. Formalize the agreement for the supply of goods/services (purchase order, contract drafted with the support of the Legal department, etc.).
- ** Supplier performance monitoring**:Maintain the business relationship with suppliers. Analyse and manage supplier performance. Ensure compliance with the execution of the agreement and manage deviations and disputes. Evaluate and mitigate supplier risks by anticipating potential issues. Optimize the company's purchasing budget. Ensure the coherence of actions with the department's strategy and the values of the group: EH&S, ethics, customer satisfaction, human resources.

**Our commitment to you**

Our greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and