Operational Buyer

At Alfa Laval, we always go that extra mile to overcome the toughest challenges. Our driving force is to accelerate success for our customers, people and planet. You can only achieve that by having dedicated people with a curious mind. Curiosity is the spark behind great ideas. And great ideas drive progress.

As a member of our team, you thrive in a truly diverse and inclusive workplace based on care and empowerment. You are here to make a difference. Constantly building to the future with sustainable solutions that have an impact on our planet's most urgent problems. Making the world a better place. Every day.

Who you are：

Material planning and purchasing for appointed product groups including but not limited to international components etc.

About the job:

Material planning and inventory management.

• Develop, maintain and implement material planning strategies for different product groups.
• Daily material requirement planning based on forecasts, fixed orders and inventory strategies, etc. for ensuring material availability for production and demands from other areas meanwhile maintaining an efficient inventory level.
• Analyze, report and handling of slow moving and obsolete inventory.

Purchasing.

• Work closely with Sourcing and other relevant interfaces on supplier development, price negotiation, contract management and supplier performance management.
• Conduct daily purchasing activities for both domestic and international purchase including PO issuing, delivery follow-up, invoicing handling, payment handling and claim handling, etc.
• Optimize material acquisition cost and supply lead time on an ongoing basis.

What you know：

Knowledge and skills::

• Bachelor degree or above. 
• Good experience of purchasing in mechanical industry is preferred  
• Good technical knowledge of mechanical products is preferred.
• Experience in international purchase is MUST. 
• Good English both orally and in writing is MUST.
• Able to communicate with foreign project team independently is a MUST.
• Excellent in using Microsoft Office, especially Excel. 办公软件尤其是EXCEL
• Good background with ERP system.

Attitude and Motivation:

• Good at team work and communication.
• Flexible.

What you will get:

We offer a challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we

help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a true impact

on Alfa Laval’s future success.

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.