Automotive engineering services buyer

Italdesign is an Italian design and engineering company specializing in automotive, transportation, and product development sectors.

Based in Moncalieri (Turin) with over 1,300 employees worldwide, it has been innovating and working with top car makers and emerging players for more than 57 years.

Renowned for its important role in car design, Italdesign has developed iconic vehicles and offers comprehensive services spanning exterior and interior design, prototyping, engineering, and turnkey project management. Its vertical integrated approach ensures seamless support to clients, from the first idea to homologation and series production, delivering solutions tailored to client needs.

Italdesign also develops new technologies and fosters advancements in mobility and prototyping. In recent years, it has expanded into electronic systems development, including infotainment, ADAS, high-voltage batteries, and Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). This blend of technical expertise and creative design makes it a leader in the industry.

Since joining the Audi Group in 2010, Italdesign has grown and created innovative solutions, combining aesthetics and functionality to pioneer cutting-edge solutions that meet the market demands. In 2025 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the tenth year in a row.

Italdesign is looking for a Buyer with experience on Engineering Services in Automotive field. The candidate will join the Purchasing team of the headquarters and will report directly to the Responsible of the organizational unit.

Responsibilities

• International Supplier Scouting;
• Supplier relationship management;
• Tender and order management (technical specification from business unit collection, request for quotation submission, quotation harmonization and collection, negotiation, supplier nomination, order issue);
• Taking care of the results (KPI) achieving;
• Interfacing and working together with different speakers during the project meetings, consolidating relations and contributing to the integration into the Company and into the Group.

Key requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in purchasing engineering services in automotive field;
• Knowledge of main purchasing technicality (purchase marketing, tender planning, risk management, economics data analysis, negotiation);
• Knowledge of main principle of contracts;
• Capability on make or buy analysis and on cost breakdown analysis;
• Capability on data analysis, reporting and presentation;
• Capability to interface and to cooperate with other organizational units and/or at different levels (both internal and suppliers / customers);
• Sense of integrity and responsibility;
• Take on responsibility, being able to share achievements with the team;
• Show initiative and work in a structured way.

Preferential requirements

• Dynamic and proactive approach;
• Able to work indipendently;
• Able to develop activities in compliance with BU needs, timing and quality content, collecting specifications and requesting quotations from the supply chain.

Additional Information

Education: Economic or Engineering background education.

Language skills: Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English are required.

Workplace: Moncalieri (TO) and availability to travel.

Benefit: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, health insurance, car leasing program, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance.

Italdesign is committed to create an inclusive, diverse and safe workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer (L.903/77).

We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of the gender, ethnic, religion, sexual orientation, disability, parental status, or social origin.