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Date: 19 Sept 2025

Location: Zurich, CH

Company: Alstom

Req ID:493554

As a pioneer of a low-carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions as a sustainable foundation for the transport of the future. Our

product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams to integrated systems, tailored services, infrastructure, signaling technology, and digital mobility solutions. When you join us, you become part of a social, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 employees worldwide work towards greener and smarter mobility.

Job tasks

• Establishment of a complete supplier selection process
• Implementation of the raw material strategy
• Ensuring project execution in line with quality, cost, delivery, and technical (QCDT) goals
• Supporting the supplier panel relationship (supplier workload, negotiation, specific agreement)

Description of key tasks

Establishment of a complete supplier selection process

• Preparation and execution of requests for quotations with suppliers
• Conducting project negotiations
• Monitoring the development of the procurement project QCDT and the legal project (FAI, Business Award, product development)
• Ensuring compliance with commitments from the work package
• Preparing the Business Award
• Promoting the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical behavior.
• Coordinating the project with all trades
• Ensuring timely delivery and quality, especially during the ramp-up phase of the project

Supporting the raw material strategy

• Consolidating the demand for raw materials, inputs
• Actively participating in the development of the raw material strategy and panel
• Providing credits for differentiation
• Supporting the Commodity Manager during the tender phase
• Representing the goods towards projects, platforms, and solutions.
• Ensuring effective teamwork with internal customers and stakeholders in problem-solving
• Applying the Alstom procurement process and ensuring knowledge gain.

Building supplier relationships

• Supporting the relationship with global supplier panels
• Managing relationships with specific suppliers (negotiation, specific agreement, QCDT performance of the local supplier)
• Measuring supplier performance and developing it in coordination with the supplier quality team
• Properly assessing all high-risk suppliers and managing the corresponding risk mitigation plan
• Handling initial issues before escalation to supervisors
• Monitoring company engagement in social responsibility and deviations
• Respecting the Alstom Code of Ethics and policies

Performance measurements

• Savings P&L and costs until completion
• Non-compliance events and on-time delivery
• Panel situation supplier compliance rate

Required education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Business School
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Procurement / Purchasing

Desired knowledge/experience

• Technical understanding of relevant components;

• Knowledge in purchasing production materials/project purchasing;

• Negotiation skills (purchase contracts) and contract law knowledge;

Professional requirements/knowledge

• Ability to work in a matrix environment
• Communication skills & team spirit
• Independent and goal-oriented working style, conscientiousness, and reliability
• Cost awareness
• Resilience
• Ability to challenge
• Result-oriented
• Strict and structured
• International mentality
• Fluent in English

Why Alstom?

Alstom is the leading company in the rail sector and solves exciting challenges for the mobility of tomorrow. That is why we value curious and innovative people who passionately work together to reinvent mobility and make it smarter and more sustainable. Day by day, we develop our agile, inclusive, and responsible culture, offering our employees the opportunity to learn, grow, and advance professionally – also across different functions and locations. Are you ready to join a global community of motivated people and embark on a challenging journey with tangible impact and concrete goals?

Alstom stands for equal opportunity as an employer. By creating an inclusive work environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, regardless of skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ethnic and national origin, disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

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