# Buyer Planner - EMEA

**Company**: Aristocrat
**Location**: Barcelona
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary and benefits package
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a dedicated Buyer Planner for the EMEA region. In this role, you will ensure the smooth flow of materials and services, supporting our Configure-to-Order production and field service needs across several countries.

Your main responsibilities will include:

- Identifying, assessing, and choosing suppliers throughout the EMEA region according to cost, quality, delivery, and compliance criteria.

- Negotiating pricing, lead times, Incoterms, and commercial terms with regional suppliers within established procurement frameworks.

- Building and maintaining positive relationships with a diverse, multi-country supplier base; conducting regular supplier performance reviews.

- Holding suppliers accountable through important metrics such as timely delivery, lead-time adherence, quality performance, and responsiveness.

- Proactively managing supplier risks related to capacity constraints, logistics disruptions, regulatory changes, and geopolitical factors.

- Initiating bid packs and supporting regional sourcing initiatives where applicable.

- Managing purchase orders for direct and indirect materials using MRP recommendations and regional supply plans.

- Expediting, de-expedite, pushing out, or cancelling POs to respond to changes in demand, supply, or logistics constraints.

- Analysing historical data, forecasts, and demand trends to adjust ordering strategies across EMEA.

- Maintaining inventory within defined min/max targets while minimising excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.

- Applying inventory optimisation principles such as safety stock, EOQ, JIT, ABC analysis, MOQ, and lead-time netting.

- Ensuring supply continuity across longer and more variable EMEA lead times.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Logistics, or a related field.

- 3+ years of experience in procurement, buying, or planning within a manufacturing environment.

- Strong working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems and end-to-end supply chain processes.

- Experience managing PO lifecycle, supplier performance, inventory targets, and expediting activities.

- Solid understanding of BOMs, lead times, and manufacturing constraints.

- Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, data analysis).

- Ability to manage dynamic priorities and resolve supply issues independently.

- Strong negotiation, communication, and collaborator management skills.

- Experience working with EMEA suppliers or cross-border supply chains is highly desirable.

- Multilingual capability and professional procurement certifications (APICS, ISM, APS) are a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Procurement
- Inventory Management
- MRP/ERP Systems
- Microsoft Excel

### Nice to have
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Multilingual Capability
- Professional Procurement Certifications

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