Caut job – Achiziții / Procurement

Strategic & Planning Responsibilities
- Participated in developing the annual Management Plan, contributing customer-related insights and operational strategies to support company objectives.
- Built and maintained the three-month sales and demand forecast, ensuring alignment between customer orders, market trends, and operational capacity.
- Analyzed monthly actual sales data, identifying gaps versus forecast, trends, and improvement opportunities to optimize customer service and internal planning.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align production planning with customer demand and to ensure achievement of monthly and quarterly targets
Operational & Customer Relationship Management
- Monitored and managed the order-to-delivery process, ensuring high service levels, timely deliveries, and rapid resolution of issues.
- Acted as the primary communication bridge between customers and internal departments such as Sales, Production, Logistics, and Finance.
- Ensured that customer requirements, special agreements, and delivery schedules were accurately reflected in internal systems.
- Managed escalations efficiently by identifying root causes, coordinating corrective actions, and communicating solutions to customers.
Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Tracked key performance indicators (KPIs) such as OTIF (On-Time In-Full), forecast accuracy, backlog levels, and customer satisfaction.
- Generated regular customer service reports and dashboards to support decision-making at management level.
- Identified process inefficiencies and implemented improvements that enhanced operational accuracy, reduced delays, and improved customer experience.
- Supported internal audits and contributed to maintaining quality standards across customer service processes.
Team & Stakeholder Management
- Coordinated workflows within the customer care team, ensuring timely and accurate execution of tasks.
- Provided guidance and training to new team members to ensure high-quality standards and consistency of customer communication.
- Supported Sales and Key Account Managers with customer insights, performance updates, and tailored service solutions.

- Develop purchasing strategies that include global opportunities in material
procurement and provide competitive advantage for the company
- Identify short-, medium- and long-term risks and produce alternative
scenarios for these risks
- Coordinate the local team by setting individual targets to each team
member, allocate the activities according to the member’s performance and
competences
- Set within the department specific tasks for each team player, by general
department’s task allocation but also daily specific needs, to determine the
priorities
- Report and prepare specific department centralized data for the factory
management
- Participate in the meetings with the local managerial team for factory
strategy assessments
- Collaborate with other department’s managers to solve factory purchasing
needs in the optimal timeframe and efficient manner
- Report to CoE managers and propose improving and cost-effective solutions
for purchases that could be managed locally
- Develop projects in the areas that ETI and the Purchasing Group are
responsible for in line with their goals and working on these issues with the
team
- Identify inefficiencies regarding operational processes and make
improvement studies
- Conduct catalog and framework contract studies for Indirect Materials
- Make and manage supplier performance evaluations effectively
- Conduct alternative supplier studies to eliminate supply risk in all materials
and create a competitive environment
- Elaborate the parameters necessary for the acquisition of raw material and
their optimization

- Purchase general and specialized equipment, materials and services for
production and office activity
- Supply all raw materials needed and follow the safety stocks for each
product
- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the purchasing activities of a
requisition
- Develop purchasing policies and procedures and respect purchasing
department budget
- Identify vendors of materials, equipment or supplies
- Evaluate cost and quality of goods or services
- Assess requirements and participate in the development of specifications for
equipment, products or substitute materials
- Prepare the correct RFx, considering the requirements of the internal client
in each department and sending them to the suppliers
- Invite tenders, consult with suppliers and review quotations, create decision
matrixes
- Determine or negotiate terms and conditions, award supplier contracts or
recommend contract awards, for the indirect side
- Review and process claims against suppliers
- Establish logistic of delivery schedules, monitor progress and contact
suppliers and internal clients to resolve problems, according to the production
planning or their urgent needs
- Maintain the relationship with all departments and supporting them
regarding the requests they have
- Use of SAP (for all direct materials) and SRM (for all indirect materials)
- Handle import processes for all type of products (raw material, finish goods,
indirect materials)
- Prepare cost saving projects
- Prepare and check state aid documentation