Junior Buyer with French

Short company description

For more than 125 years, Goodyear has developed the technologies and solutions to give people the confidence to go further and faster. It’s Goodyear’s spirit of innovation that keeps vehicles on roads of every surface, around racetracks, in the air and even on the moon.

Goodyear is committed to attracting, developing and retaining associates through integrated processes and programs designed to create an inclusive culture.

Requirements

- Excellent communication skills in French and English
- Diligent, ensures deadlines are met and priorities are balanced accordingly
- Ability to handle multiple priorities within established time-frame
- Demonstrated affinity with commercial issues
- Analytical, numerate
- Team player
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Computer literate
- Ability to follow procedures and sequential processes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Customer achievement orientation
- No previous experience required

Responsibilities

- Handles daily interaction with Stakeholders, Buyers and Suppliers.
- Handles within agreed time-frames purchase requisitions in scope across all procurement commodities.
- Escalates non compliance to Country/Cluster Section Head. Provides user support and customer service to stakeholders.
- Runs Bidding process (if supplier is not already selected).
- Analyzes requisitions, searches for potential suppliers according to commodity driven supplier list, run the simplified bidding process and select the supplier accordingly.
- Identifies repetitive buys as candidate for catalogs and shares other sourcing ideas with Commodity Buyer.

Other info

What we offer:

- Possibility to work in a multinational company with a well-known brand
- Possibility to contribute to increasing the innovation, safety and sustainability of the tires that drivers across EMEA rely on every day
- Learning the fundamentals of Procurement from professionals in the field across EMEA
- Learning to work with leading-edge tools and technology