Operational Buyer

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Operational Buyer
- Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.- We are looking for an Operational Buyer covering productions sites in Switzerland and Italy. This position is based in Avignon, France and reports directly to the Naturals EAME Raw Material Planning Manager.- You will:
- Coordinate the Pre Shipment Sample (PSS) together with Site Quality, Warehouse and Global Purchasing
- Create raw material orders (PO) from our global suppliers following raw material planning requirements
- Follow daily order confirmation and delivery status with suppliers and global purchasing to ensure security of supply
- Solve raw material availability problems with raw material and production planning
- Manage all supplier documents related to raw material deliveries and digital archiving
- Review supplier invoices, check for discrepancies with suppliers and global accounting and release them for approval
- Coordinate inbound logistics and inbound customs with support from the customs department
- Manage supplier performance regarding confirmation, on-time delivery (OTIF) and quality defects
- Manage ERP master data
- Identify, suggest and implement continuous improvements across the supply chain
- Primary Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Administration, Logistics or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience in procurement/supply chain preferred
- Experience in the flavor, food or fragrance industry preferred
- Technical Skills:
- Language Skills: English, both spoken and written. Italian and German is a plus.
- Excellent partner management, building and maintaining relationships, proactive, challenging and structured team player
- Your benefits in Avignon:
- 25 days of holiday per year
- Health coverage is partially paid for by our company
- 1 remote working day per week
- Incentive bonus
- Career development opportunities
- At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.**Remote working**:Remote