A career in Maison Valentino is your chance to grow in a reality where business and creativity meet and thrive in an inclusive, and open-minded community. 

Maison Valentino believes in a colleague-centric approach, where our contribution and behaviors as individuals are the secret of our success as a community. Each Valentino colleague is crucial to guarantee that every need in Valentino is met with mastery, creativity, uniqueness, and care.

We are looking for a WW BUYER INDIRECTS based in MILAN.

Reporting to the Worldwide Procurement Manager for Indirect Spend, the WW Buyer Indirects is responsible for implementing Global Sourcing Strategies for Indirects goods and services.

The responsibility will extend to the spend of the production sites, located in Italy, the corporate goods and services, the spend of the retail network around the world.

The managed categories will include both industrial and non-industrial indirect spend, including, but not limited to:

• Mobility
• Facility
• Security
• Maintenance
• IT & Digital
• Energy
• Logistics
• Waste Management
• Travel
• Stationery for retail network

The WW Buyer for Indirects:

• Is an essential actor to promote the implementation of a cost saving funnel to be continuously fed with relevant saving initiatives;
• Strives the evaluation of spend areas at global level for indirect goods and services to support the growth and the optimization of the industrial and retail network;
• Ensures the finalization of global contracts ensuring the consensus from key stakeholders within deadlines;
• Contributes to the implementation of a new governance model for the indirect spend from current fully decentralized to a centralized model for the suitable categories;
• Implements the global category strategy for the procurement of the assigned categories in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders and the Procurement Manager;
• Cooperate with internal stakeholders to implement the procurement digital platform which will increase the level of automation of procurement activities related to Suppliers Onboarding, Source to Contract and Procure to Pay;
• Support the deployment of a Supplier Management Process;
• Nurture a cost-conscious culture inside the company.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree in technical/economic disciplines – Preferably Engineering or Business
• Fluent in Italian and English
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a procurement role with direct responsibility on negotiations
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Project management skills to deal with complex procurement projects, involving different processes and stakeholders
• Results oriented: able to hit strong results in environments with several constraints
• Enthusiast on Innovative ways of working
• Empathetic with Internal Stakeholders to build up fruitful relationships
• Autonomy and Problem solving attitude
• Proactive approach to unknown situations.

The Valentino ecosystem is home to a wide and extraordinary pool of talents, each colleague contributing with their unique attributes, nurturing a culture of inclusivity and equality. Inspiring sense of belonging, passion and engaging colleagues are the bases of our inclusive and multifaceted world.