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Purchasing Specialist

Job Description

Your life at Ubi

We are currently seeking for a Purchasing Specialist to join our Ubisoft Bucharest team in a fast-paced international environment where we enjoy the projects and the people we work with. What’s in it for you? With the opportunity to be trained by our purchasing specialists, you will be responsible for researching new vendors, tracking deliveries, and updating order records (e.g., dates, invoices, and discounts)

Qualifications

Your main mission

• Your main role will be to order supplies and equipment based on our company’s needs.
• Develop the sourcing strategies for specific departments and areas of expenses for RFPs with inputs from business stakeholders, prepare cost benchmarking, evaluation matrix, and commercial supplier award proposal, conduct market research to identify pricing trends.
• Conduct commercial negotiations through RFP processes, participate in projects led by the HQ procurement team to support project negotiation and supplier selection.
• Build and maintain a sustainable and collaborative approach with suppliers, monitor key strategic supplier’s performance with input from business stakeholders, and communicate to suppliers the corrective actions and improvement plan.
• Conduct detailed assessment in terms of compliance with the company’s core policies and procedures.
• Perform market analysis for recommending targeted added value to category strategies.
• Ensure mitigation of risks throughout coordination with Ubisoft HQ Procurement team, Legal, Finance, and other cross-functional teams for executing performance-driven supplier contracts, support the Finance team in coordinating with suppliers for payments/outstanding invoice reconciliation.
• Track orders and ensure timely delivery while updating internal databases with order details (dates, suppliers, quantities, discounts).
• Ensure catalog creation for applicable contracts.
• Identify and communicate within the Procurement team improvement ideas applicable in day-to-day operations/processes.
• Initiate and coordinate Contract Management activities with the Legal team (local and HQ).
• Work towards Supplier Consolidation.
• Provide support to procurement team members and preparation of different activities such as reporting, operational and administrative tasks.

The value you bring

• 3-5 years of procurement experience in a similar position, in a multi-national environment (it’s a plus)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Planning and organizing abilities, attention to details.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and priorities.

• Proactive and able to show initiative.
• Good team player, autonomous and constantly willing to grow.
• Proficiency in English.
• Microsoft Excel proficiency.

Additional Information

Support description: Our colleagues in the support functions are the backbone of the studios, they make sure that the business departments have the needed resources for creating fantastic new worlds, and that our magic is passed on.

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Company Description

Ubisoft’s 19.000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. This ambition is very much embedded into our work here, at Ubisoft Romania, where we create games that reach millions of people worldwide. We’re working with top global Ubisoft studios on creating worlds that shape the entertainment industry - from Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon to Watch Dogs, Just Dance and other exciting projects, yet to be announced. We are driven by the work we do and inspired by the fun we have while doing it!

We’re an equal opportunity employer and we believe that diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.