Purchasing Manager ( Print & Paper )

Your mission

The Purchase Manager is responsible for the procurement of strategic raw materials for our activities, including paper, printed materials, envelopes, and cardboard for clients. You optimize costs, ensure supply based on production needs, and guarantee the quality of purchased products.

Your responsibilities

As a Purchase Manager, your responsibilities will include:

Purchasing Strategy and Management

• Define and implement a purchasing strategy for Operations aligned with the company’s purchasing policies.
• Actively monitor the paper and printing supplies market to identify and anticipate price developments, ecological trends, and regulatory changes.
• Negotiate supply contracts with suppliers and service providers, ensuring the best conditions (price, deadlines, quality, payment terms).
• Develop a sustainable purchasing strategy, integrating environmental constraints (FSC, PEFC, recycling, waste reduction, etc.).

Supplier Management and Tender Processes

• Identify and qualify new suppliers (both local and international) to meet needs and continuously secure the best conditions.
• Draft and manage tender processes to select the most competitive suppliers.
• Establish and maintain an up-to-date price list (for informational purposes) for various materials to provide Sales with a reference tool.
• Manage supplier relationships, evaluate their performance, and ensure long-term partnerships.
• Audit suppliers regarding quality, regulatory compliance, and CSR.

Procurement and Stock Management

• Collaborate closely with Customer Service, Production, and Logistics to anticipate purchasing needs based on client orders and production cycles, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted supply chain.
• Place orders based on forecasted data and logistical requirements defined in the ERP system, handle the administrative processing of purchase orders, and track them until goods are received.
• Analyze and integrate transport and storage constraints into procurement management, optimize inventory management, and minimize storage costs while ensuring a sufficient safety stock level.

Your profile

As a Purchase Manager, you have:

• Ideally 3 to 5 years of experience as a purchaser in the printing and/or paper sector (Graphic Arts/routing).
• A Bachelor's or equivalent through experience.
• Excellent negotiation and analytical skills.
• Working proficiency in French / Dutch / English
• Optimization skills, good communication abilities, and strong organizational skills.

Our offer

A competitive salary package - Your salary comes with extra-legal benefits, such as a company car / mobility plan, profit sharing, group and hospitalization insurance and meal vouchers. Lots of autonomy and flexibility for direct impact on the growth of speos. A stimulating and evolving role with many challenges, opportunities and innovative projects. A dynamic team in a family company culture! A unique atmosphere, collegiality and conviviality. You will join us in a diverse team of highly talented colleagues, where there is room for ideas, initiative and professional development.