Tailor&Fox, your HR Business Partner, on behalf of a global and leading group provider of mobile hydraulic and electrification products and solutions is looking for an experienced: STRATEGIC BUYER Posizione::You will have the amazing opportunity to be part of a Global Purchasing/Procurement team and be responsible for the operational procurement activities within the local/regional sites. Based in Reggio Emilia (Italy), you will be ensuring one point of contact towards suppliers and the business. Reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager, you will join international projects with colleagues from HQ and other branches/plants in Italy, Denmark, the UK, the USA, Brazil, India, and China. The main challenge is ensuring successfully excellent execution and attention to detail, control to be delivered to timeline while ensuring high quality and cost targets according to the continuous improvement approach. Able to ensure the best cost, quality, and delivery sourcing decisions. Key Responsibilities: - Liaising with various teams and functions (Engineering, Operations, and Procurement). Handling effective and proactive relationship with other relevant functions-departments to forecast and supply to the business; - Active teamwork with the category teams and BU teams to constantly improve processes, meet-exceed target, share best practices; - Supplier Accountability (50% in Italy and 50% abroad). Support corrective actions for on-time delivery (OTD). Support and follow up reimbursement activities; - Contracts and Pricing. Standard price for purchase price & Price Change Reporting; - Own and maintain procurement master data for local / regional sites, including SAP Data update; - Create & maintain Service Level Agreements. Own and maintain supplier tooling database, incl. Input for budget; - Project Implementation. Coordinate ramp-up and ramp-down of new projects. Supplier onboarding as per company’s standards; - Material Availability Monitoring: supply and/or quality issues including documentation of supplier performance. Lead time / VMI activities. Monitor forecast versus supplier capacities. Requisiti: - BSc/BA in Business, Technology, Project Management, or relevant field, MSc/MBA is a plus; - Proven experience in the role, minimum 5 years of experience in procurement, purchasing department, operations; - Consistent experience in strategic supplier management; - Experience with categories and components in hydraulic systems a strong preference; - Outstanding Team workability: meaningful experience in global settings, where you had concrete opportunity to cooperate with colleagues and different stakeholders at a global level; - Fluent English and Italian (both written and spoken); - Good interpersonal and communication skills: must be able to engage with staff at all levels of the organization; - Proficient in the use of MS Office: Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis and presentations; - Outstanding negotiation ability: facing sometimes differing Internal/External stakeholder expectations; - Results-driven, with a desire to reach goals by overcoming obstacles; - Ability to work in a high pace context with a proactive mindset; - Strong communicator and as a team player, you possess strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong stakeholder networks; - Available for domestic and international business trips, if required. Altre informazioni::Location: Reggio Emilia (Italy) domestic/international travels.