Lead Buyer Mill Operations and Recycling Services

The Lead Buyer plays a dual role for the Purchasing of Mill Operations & Recycling Services:
Local role (Alpha): manage the team of Technical Parts Buyers to purchase services links to his subcategory in his/her cluster.
Transversal role (Beta): identify with the cluster Lead User the benchmark activities within the hub to transfer them across Europe (TCO, supplier panel, process management…).
Local and transversal approaches are combined by the definition of the Annual Project Portfolio build by the Lead Buyer for his hub in close cooperation with the Subcategory Management and other Lead Buyers. The Lead Buyer ensures that all requirements of his/her hub for the subcategory are fulfilled by his/her Buyers in due time with the best solution (Alpha role). The Lead Buyer also monitors key steps of projects conducted in other hubs for the specific activity he/she oversees (Beta role).