Purchasing Director | Pampling Group | Seville

• High level of English for negotiating and managing international suppliers.

• Experience in operational transformation and process improvement projects.

• Knowledge of planning methodologies.

• University degree in Engineering, Industrial Organization, Business Administration, or related fields.

• Joining a growing company with a solid and ambitious project.

• Strategic position with a direct impact on the profitability and scalability of the business.

• Active participation in supply chain transformation and improvement projects.

• Professional development within an evolving organization.

• Competitive compensation package in line with the experience provided.

If you are passionate about building efficient processes, optimizing costs, developing suppliers, and connecting operational planning with business strategy, we want to meet you.

At Pampling Group, we are looking to incorporate a Purchasing and Production Planning Director who leads a key function within the company, connecting the commercial strategy with production, procurement, and supplier management decisions.

This is a position with a direct impact on sales, profitability, and operational efficiency of the business, with the ability to define processes, develop suppliers, and build a solid and scalable purchasing and planning structure.

Ensure that the planning of own production, the purchase of raw materials, and the purchase of finished products respond to the real needs of the business, guaranteeing availability, quality, cost, and appropriate deadlines.

The selected person will be responsible for transforming information from sales, assortment, design, stock, and commercial strategy into effective decisions about what to produce, what to buy, when to do it, and in what quantities.

The goal will be to maximize sales and margin, avoiding stockouts, overbuying, productive bottlenecks, and accumulation of obsolete stock.

They will also participate in the construction of a cost structure that allows for an objective comparison of internal production, external production, and the purchase of finished products to continuously optimize the company's profitability.

As part of the area's evolution, they will lead the progressive development of an international procurement strategy that allows for diversifying suppliers, improving costs, and strengthening the group's future growth capacity.

Manage the necessary purchases to comply with the defined planning, ensuring the appropriate quantity, quality, cost, and deadline.

Negotiate with suppliers prices, payment conditions, minimum purchases, delivery times, qualities, and service levels.

Develop a solid network of national and international suppliers that allows for diversifying supply, improving costs, reducing risks, and increasing the company's profitability.

Search for, approve, and develop new supplier alternatives, especially international ones, that provide greater competitiveness in cost, quality, flexibility, deadline, and capacity.

Monitor compliance with agreed terms, managing incidents and deviations when necessary.

Build and maintain a reliable cost structure by product, process, and production model.

Analyze alternatives between internal production, external production, and the purchase of finished products to decide the most cost-efficient option in terms of margin, quality, deadline, and capacity.

Drive continuous improvements in costs, margins, suppliers, inventory, and reduction of obsolete stock.

Participate in the development of the PLM, providing information on suppliers, materials, costs, and processes that allows for improving decision-making and the comparison between production and purchasing alternatives.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in management positions within purchasing and planning.

• Experience in negotiating with national and international suppliers.

• Experience in retail, textiles, or companies with their own manufacturing.

• Knowledge of procurement processes and production planning.

• Valuable experience in international purchasing.

• Experience working with planning and data analysis tools.

• Strategic vision and business orientation.

• Analytical ability and data-driven decision-making.

• Leadership and cross-functional influence.

• Advanced negotiation.

• Planning and organization.

• Results orientation.

• Ability to manage priorities in dynamic environments.

• Continuous improvement mindset.