Procurement Technician

• Work area: Villaviciosa de Odón campus (Madrid)
• Schedule: Mon-Thu, 09:00 to 18:30 and Fri, 09:00 to 15:00 (3 days remote work)
• Contract: 40h/week, temporary (maternity leave)
• Salary range: to be assessed based on the experience to be provided
• Flexible compensation: wide package of social benefits as a UE employee (discounts on training, private medical insurance, childcare vouchers, restaurant vouchers, public transport discounts...).
• Growth: access to continuous training, Development Plan, and Professional Career within the team and group companies.
• Excellent working environment.

• Previous experience: at least 3-4 years performing negotiation functions in the education, retail, or software licensing sectors.
• Minimum studies: university degree.
• Languages: native Spanish. B2-C1 English level is highly valued.
• Office tools: advanced level Office suite.
• Profile: person with high customer orientation, good communication and negotiation skills, planned and organized, oriented toward teamwork, proactivity, and learning capacity.

At the Universidad Europea de Madrid, we are looking for a Purchasing Technician to cover a maternity leave replacement, whose mission will be to provide support in the development of the various phases of purchasing processes, to achieve user satisfaction and process efficiency: analysis of user needs, market and supplier analysis, execution of negotiations, monitoring of agreements, incident management, and user support.

• Perform market analysis and analysis of the products/services to be negotiated, identifying the most relevant suppliers.

• Analyze and organize the information provided by the user.

• Identify and propose possible negotiation strategies.

• Analyze, compare, and synthesize supplier proposals.

• Analyze and present negotiation results.

• Analyze purchasing data so that the company can have visibility of purchasing expenditure and propose improvement actions.

• Obtain and manage the information requested throughout the negotiation.

• Prepare draft documents: RFI, RFP, and final negotiation report.

• Document negotiation results and progress.

• Collaborate closely with the AP team in tasks related to the use of the purchasing portal (Oracle Cloud), proactive order tracking, management of order incidents (not received, erroneous, etc.), training users and suppliers in the use of tools, and supplier onboarding.

• Execute negotiations of moderate complexity independently.

• Optimize the catalog, performing additions, deletions, and modifications of product and service data in the purchasing portal (Oracle Cloud).

• Participate in meetings and communications with users for the execution of purchasing processes.

• Obtain information from the user: product/service requirements, warranties, delivery times, required service levels, historical consumption, forecasted future consumption, current and past suppliers, etc.,

• Recommend to the user which suppliers to select and which selection criteria to follow.

• Monitor consumption by the user and resolve incidents related to the agreements reached.

Do you have experience negotiating in purchasing processes? Would you like to have a professional opportunity at UEM where you can demonstrate all your potential and open doors to stabilize your career with us? Keep reading!