Buyer, Supply Chain​/Logistics

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Tech Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy.

Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

As an Order Fulfillment Buyer/ Expeditor within the Sourcing team, you will interact with PSI, Plant Production, Logistics, Category Management, Sourcing, Quality Assurance, accounts payable, and suppliers to help support production activities and schedules. You will be responsible for purchase orders and their contents from the moment they are issued until they are closed out, i.e., setting contract terms, maintaining Outline Agreements, order confirmation, expediting deliveries, maintaining accurate delivery dates in SAP, Coordinating with Quality and Logistics, resolving any payment issues to the supplier, financial tracking of costs recognition, and any other tasks as assigned by the manager.

• Lead high-stakes negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms and drive cost efficiencies.
• Oversee comprehensive supplier management, ensuring performance metrics, contract compliance, and long-term partnership development.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the strategic team to align procurement activities with broader organizational objectives.
• PO creation and interfacing with suppliers to ensure the PO is received/acknowledged, scheduled, and the ship date is met.
• Ensure planned ship date aligns with production needs and, if not, work with the supplier to improve delivery.
• Follow up with email correspondence in an organized and timely fashion, and comply with documentation requirements
• Manages Quarterly Price Adjustments and maintains Outline Agreements
• Regularly assessing deliveries and expediting as necessary
• Collaborating with Internal and External stakeholders
• Ensure Master Data is accurate
• Invoice resolution with the supplier and Accounts Payable
• Coordinating with Logistics to ensure goods are shipped safely and promptly
• Other tasks as assigned

Position Qualifications

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) in an applicable or related field to Sourcing/Procurement/Supply Chain/ Business Administration
• 5 years minimum experience in increasing roles in purchasing, expediting, or supply chain

Required Skills

• Experience in negotiating with proven results
• Excellent Expediting skills, preferably related to Engineering equipment
• Familiarity with purchase order conditions, INCOTERMS, domestic and International Logistics
• Good communicator having strong interpersonal, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Time Management skills
• Capable of working in a team, prioritizing, multitasking, and organizing
• Agile and adaptable to changing priorities
• Purchase order life cycle management
• Proficient in Google Suite (Gmail, Sheets, Docs, and Google Meet)
• SAP Knowledge

Desired Qualifications

• Expert:
  Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field
• Strategic:
  Gets the big game. Understands long-term. Respects the short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise
• Inspirational:
  Ability to inspire/ motivate others
• Curious:
  Ability to pose high-impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where…