Job Description – Procurement Specialist (Products, Bids & Projects)

📍 Location: Herstal

🕘 Seniority Level: Mid to Senior Level

🗂️ Reporting To: Head/Director of Procurement Bids, Projects, and Products

🧭 Purpose of the Role

Embed procurement expertise within bid, project, and product teams to ensure best-value supply solutions. This includes managing cost, quality, risk, and timely delivery while leveraging supplier innovation from the earliest stages of solution design (pre-Gate 1 / definition phase). The role has direct influence over design decisions and ultimately contributes to margin improvement.

📈 Key Impact Areas

• Spend Under Management: All procurement components of the assigned bid, project, or product.
• Savings Delivered: Through Make/Buy decisions, supplier negotiations, and Design-to-Cost initiatives.
• Business Impact: Contributes directly to project turnover and margin realization.

🛠️ Core Responsibilities

1. Acquisition Strategy & Planning

• Challenge and refine business requirements.
• Conduct Make/Buy and risk analysis.
• Align procurement planning with customer and regulatory obligations.
• Define and manage the acquisition plan and cost baseline in coordination with Category Managers.

2. Supplier Innovation & Engagement

• Perform market scouting to source cutting-edge supplier solutions.
• Bring supplier innovation into early-phase design discussions.
• Organize and lead Design-to-Value and cost-evaluation workshops with engineering and suppliers.

3. Execution & Procurement Performance

• Place and manage orders to meet Time, Quality, Cost, and Risk KPIs.
• Maintain up-to-date procurement dashboards and reports.
• Coordinate delivery, claims, and change management with operational and category teams.

4. Contract & Compliance Management

• Draft and review supplier contract terms, ensuring compliance with all legal, regulatory, and sustainability obligations (export control, REACH, social and environmental rules, etc.).

5. Governance & Internal Reporting

• Represent procurement in internal project/bid reviews.
• Report on procurement savings, risks, opportunities, and delivery performance.
• Ensure procurement compliance through internal tools and processes (ERP, digital acquisition platforms, etc.)



🎓 Profile Requirements

📚 Education & Experience

• Master’s degree or engineering background required.
• Proven experience in procurement—particularly in early design or solution phases—is a plus.
• Familiarity with project-based procurement and product lifecycle management.

🛠 Technical Skills

• Make/Buy and risk assessment expertise.
• Understanding of project management and business models.
• Proficiency in Design-to-Cost, Lean, and cost evaluation techniques.
• Regulatory awareness (export control, environmental rules, REACH, etc.).
• Financial literacy: TCO, cash impact, etc.

🤝 Soft Skills

• Ability to influence across functions and geographies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and conflict-resolution abilities.
• Comfortable navigating complex, multicultural environments.
• Proactive, strategic, and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communicator (written and verbal).
• Skilled at prioritizing and managing deadlines under pressure.
• Ability to synthesize complex problems and lead cross-functional project teams.

🌐 Languages

• Fluent in English (mandatory); additional languages are a plus.