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As a Direct Procurement Buyer specialising in OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) & Wafer, you will play a pivotal role in managing the procurement process for critical components and services within the semiconductor supply chain. Working closely with suppliers, internal stakeholders, and engineering teams, you will ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products while optimising costs and maintaining stringent quality standards. Your expertise in negotiating contracts, analysing market trends, and cultivating supplier relationships will be essential in supporting the company's strategic objectives.

More specifically, you will:

• Strategic Sourcing: Develop the strategic approaches for complex and international procurement initiatives / supplier business: organisation of the process, defining the appropriate specific sourcing techniques, business case definition, stakeholders alignment, prepare and execute the needed complex negotiations. Analyse, control and validate the high complex circumstances, e.g. optimization potentials for demands and specifications.
• Market Analysis: Scan the market to keep abreast of technological and market changes, which can also result in opportunities to reduce TCO and implements best practice.
• Cost Management: Develop and implement cost reduction strategies through value engineering, volume leverage, and process improvements while ensuring product quality and reliability.
• Quality Assurance: Enable SQA  to establish and enforce rigorous quality standards and performance metrics for OSAT / Wafer suppliers, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. Assist on the claim procedure (escalation instance) in case of quality, logistic and quantity problems.
• Contract Negotiation: create framework agreements / single contracts with suppliers in cross functional and/or multi-national teams.
• Stakeholder Management: work in cross functional teams with the responsibility for tenders, negotiations and contract closures in close alignment with the internal clients, requiring Stakeholders alignment at the highest level.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Oversee the performance of the current partnerships and ensure that regular business reviews are organised and participate actively to it. Build a strong relationship with internal and external stakeholders based on honesty, credibility and mutual trust, and ensure the effective flow of communication.
• Ensure the compliance with the overall Category /  Procurement / Company strategy.

Your profile

• You have a Master’s degree in technical or engineering studies or you have an economics background with strong technical skills.
• You have at least 3 years of experience.
• You are fluent in English.
• You are autonomous, flexible and organised.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent analytical abilities with proficiency in market research, cost analysis, and financial modelling.
  
  

We offer

• A challenging job in a dynamic high-tech international environment.
• The opportunity to take ownership of your professional passion in order to contribute to the success of the company.
• An enjoyable, team-oriented and professional atmosphere in a flat-structured organization.
• Versatile development opportunities.

Diversity & Inclusion

Melexis is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Melexis

Inspired by a passion for technology and engineering, Melexis designs, develops and delivers innovative micro-electronic solutions. They enable designers to turn ideas into applications that support the best imaginable future. The company’s advanced mixed-signal semiconductor sensors and actuators integrate sensing, driving and communication into next-generation products and systems. They improve safety, raise efficiency, support sustainability and enhance comfort.

Melexis is a world leader in automotive sensors. Today, on average, every new car produced worldwide contains 18 Melexis chips. Melexis uses this expertise to serve other markets as well: alternative mobility, smart appliances, smart buildings, robotics, energy management and digital health.

Melexis is headquartered in Belgium and employs over 2000 people in 18 locations worldwide. The company is publicly traded on Euronext Brussels (MELE).