Junior Buyer

Job Description

1. Role overview

This role supports purchasing activities across Direct Materials and Indirect Spend categories for the Felgueiras manufacturing site. The Junior Buyer is responsible for creating and managing purchase orders in the ERP system, following supplier deliveries, resolving supply-related issues, maintaining accurate purchasing and contract data, and contributing to procurement best practices, spend optimization and continuous improvement initiatives.

2. Proposed mission

Support the development of the Purchasing Department at the new Felgueiras manufacturing site by ensuring accurate, timely and reliable procurement operations, while helping secure supplier deliveries, improve purchasing data quality and contribute to sourcing, supplier management and cost optimization activities.

3. Main responsibilities

• Create, update and manage purchase orders within the ERP system, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely processing.
• Follow up supplier order confirmations, delivery dates and overdue purchase orders to ensure production and business requirements are met.
• Resolve supply-related issues in coordination with suppliers, purchasing, supply chain, production and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate supplier, contract and purchasing data in the information system, supporting reliable reporting and operational decisions.
• Support procurement activities for selected direct and indirect purchasing categories.
• Track purchasing metrics, prepare procurement reports and provide visibility on key purchasing performance indicators.
• Maintain purchasing documentation, contract records and operational follow-up files.
• Participate in procurement best practices, spend optimization, cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the integration of a new manufacturing site and help shape purchasing processes from the ground up.

4. Performance indicators

• Purchase order processing time.
• Purchase order accuracy rate.
• Contract data accuracy rate.
• Average supply issue resolution time.
• Supplier service rate.
• Purchase order confirmation time.

Qualifications

5. Target recruitment profile

The ideal profile is an ambitious and structured procurement professional with solid supply chain fundamentals, good attention to detail and strong operational discipline. The person should be comfortable working with ERP systems, purchasing data and Excel, and should be able to follow supplier commitments, solve operational issues and collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Essential requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Management, Engineering, Business or a related field.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, logistics or a similar operational environment.
• Good understanding of supply chain fundamentals and purchasing processes.
• ERP system experience, preferably SAP.
• Good command of Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel.
• Fluent Portuguese and English.
• French language skills are a plus.

Valued skills and experience

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial or purchasing environment.
• Exposure to direct materials and/or indirect spend categories.
• Experience with purchase order follow-up, supplier communication and delivery tracking.
• Ability to manage contract or supplier data accurately.
• Interest in developing sourcing, supplier management, negotiation and supply chain management skills.
• Teamwork orientation, proactivity, results orientation, problem-solving, communication skills and attention to detail.

6. Main interfaces

The role will interact regularly with Purchasing, Supply Chain, Production, Logistics, Finance, suppliers, internal requesters and the local Felgueiras management team. It requires close teamwork to ensure purchase order accuracy, supplier delivery follow-up, contract data reliability and timely resolution of supply-related issues.

Additional Information

What We Offer

• Exposure to multinational operations and collaboration.
• Career progression within a growing and innovative finance framework.

Important: Only applications submitted with an English CV through our secure system will be considered!

The protection of our candidates’ personal data is a commitment of Somfy Group. We therefore ask any candidate to submit their application to us exclusively via our secure system, and not by email or postal.

Compensation: 19000 to 29000 (EUR) (YEARLY)