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AGCO Corporation Buyer, Indirect Purchasing in Assumption, Illinois
Buyer, Indirect Purchasing
Date: May 2, 2024
Location:
Assumption, IL, US
Brand: Grain & Protein
Workplace Type: Onsite
Do you want to help solve the world's most pressing challenges? Feeding the world's growing population and slowing climate change are two of the world's greatest challenges. AGCO is a part of the solution! Join us to make your contribution.
AGCO is seeking a talented, passionate, and highly motivated professional to join the purchasing team as a Buyer, Indirect Purchasing to work a hybrid schedule to any of our 3 Illinois locations including Assumption, Taylorville or Paris. The Buyer will assist in driving the development and implementation of AGCO’s global commodity strategies resulting in best-in-class quality, delivery, and total cost of ownership. Additionally, the Buyer supports multiple Strategic and Global Commodity Managers through RFQ execution, negotiations, market analysis, strategy development, contract management as well as data gathering and analysis. The Buyer also supports the North America and Global team by identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives for both transactional and strategic purchasing.
Your Impact
Execution of Purchasing process to ensure supply availability and plant sustainability.
Identification and negotiation of cost reduction opportunities which contributes directly to RONA
Collaborate with the regional team to consolidate vendors and aggregate demand across multiple functional areas within AGCO.
Review process improvement opportunities with the regional team.
Your Experience and Qualifications
Must have a strong personality and sense of independence
Experience as a Buyer, Supply Chain Analyst, or another related commodity’s position managing, specifically in a manufacturing environment or with a manufacturing company.
2-5+ year experience in an SSC (Shared Service Center) environment
Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with a diverse internal team, executive leadership and suppliers. Effectively and positively presents solutions in ambiguous or difficult situations.
Understanding of multi-step strategic sourcing processes, e-commerce tools, consortium buys, offshoring, insourcing, outsourcing and/or implementation of large projects.
Your Benefits
Attractive, fair remuneration including participation in our bonus scheme
Balance of work, family and free time due to flexible working time and the possibility of remote work within the organizational framework
Health and life insurance
Your Workplace
You will work a hybrid schedule to any of our Grain & Protein locations including Assumption IL, Taylorville IL or Paris IL to team up with your wonderful AGCO colleagues.
We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.
Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!
AGCO is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Smart Solutions
Our five grain and protein brands help our customers manage seeds and grains, protect animal health and improve productivity. GSI and Cimbria offer advanced, integrated systems that make storing, conditioning, moving, and managing grain and seed easier and more profitable. Cumberland and AP leverage the latest high-tech solutions to improve poultry and swine production, including state-of-the-art climate control, biosecurity, and feeding systems. And Tecno’s innovative layer housing helps egg producers protect the well-being of their birds and achieve better results.
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