Senior Buyer

Job Title   

Senior Buyer 

📍 Location   

Tampere, Pirkanmaa 

🔎 About Us 

Ingersoll Rand is a global market leader with a broad range of innovative and mission-critical air, fluid, energy, and medical technologies, providing services and solutions to increase industrial productivity and efficiency.  

🖌 Job Summary 

As Senior Buyer, you will execute daily material planning and replenishment for dedicated part numbers from fixed vendors in SAP MRP.  Your daily work will include close cooperation externally with our vendors including purchase order execution and communicating priorities between material numbers and purchase orders. You will lead our purchasing target setting and be part at our project groups to ensure material requirements and material feasibility against the given deadlines.  

📃 Responsibilities 

• Developing, maintaining, and continuously improving the KPI system to support business objectives

• Updating materials master -parameters within area of responsibility  

• Tracking supplier performance and work closely together to improve performance  

• Forecasting assigned components to vendors insuring that agreed lead times are followed  

• Securing material availability in production  

🏆 Basic Qualifications 

• B. Sc. or M.Sc. in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field 

• 5+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial environment 

• Extensive knowledge of Excel, and SAP MM & PP modules or similar  

• Strong negotiation and communication skills both in Finnish and English 

🚗 Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements 

Fully site based, flexible working, hybrid model. Endorsing a good work-life balance is important to us, and we ensure this with flexible working hours, and the opportunity for remote work to better suit your role. You can work either on your home office or at our Messukylä-office.  

🎯 Key Competencies 

• A collaborative and problem-solving mindset with the ability to lead complex negotiations with suppliers, secure favorable terms, and influence internal stakeholders to align with procurement strategies 

• Material planning based on SAP purchase requisitions and exception messages 

• Understanding of financial principles, supply chain dynamics and how procurement impacts overall business performance  

• Clear and effective communication across departments and with external partners; ability to build strong relationships and manage conflicts constructively  

❤ What we Offer 

An interesting position within a global company where you will have the ability to work in a team who contributes to the success of the organization. You will have opportunities for personal development and growth. We offer an array of benefits provided for our employees in our global environment including a competitive compensation package and an employee share ownership program.