Project Purchasing Manager (M/F)
Job Description
- Challenge needs and requirements from the solution definition phase
- Identify associated stakes and acquisition strategies
- Validate market offer availability
- Define, execute, and pilot the acquisition plan
- Interface with category buyers and product/project stakeholders
- Establish and monitor contractual acquisition requirements
- Engineering degree and/or Master's in purchasing or equivalent
- Experience in purchasing in a production/industrial environment
- Experience in teamwork requiring listening skills and good interpersonal skills
- Experience in international activity with a solid command of English
- Rigorous and organized, with strong initiative and reactivity
- Ability to access national defense secret information (requires security clearance)
- An attractive compensation package
- Continuous skills development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
- An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
- Recognized societal and environmental commitment
Build a future of trust together
Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key areas of innovation such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.
Our commitments, your benefits
- Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
- An attractive compensation package
- Continuous skills development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
- An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
- Recognized societal and environmental commitment
Your daily life
North of Saint-Etienne, our center of excellence in terrestrial combatant optronics develops and manufactures night vision systems and optical components. A historic center of the Angénieux brand, the site is also specialized in very high-quality optics for the cinema industry.
Is your ambition to actively contribute to the competitiveness of a Defense project?
Do you want to manage and optimize the purchasing share of high-stakes and strategic products and projects for our activities?
Within the Purchasing Department of the Optronics and Missile Electronics France domain, you will join a team of about fifteen people. In interaction with all offer, project, product line, and competence center teams, you will be responsible for the Cryogenics sector to:
- Challenge needs and requirements from the solution definition phase
- Identify associated stakes and acquisition strategies,
- Validate market offer availability
- Define, execute, and pilot the acquisition plan
- Interface with category buyers from segments and product/project stakeholders
- Establish and monitor contractual acquisition requirements
Profile:
You have an engineering degree and/or a Master's in purchasing or equivalent and you have experience in:
- Purchasing in a production/industrial environment
- Teamwork requiring listening skills and good interpersonal skills
- An international activity with a solid command of English.
Rigorous and organized, do you have real qualities of initiative and reactivity?
As the position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy, the selected person will be subject to a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.
If you recognize yourself, then this position is for you!
Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!
