SENIOR BUYER

Description

Job Summary: Senior Buyer to strategically manage the MRO (Maintenance) category, ensuring competitiveness, quality, and cost optimization. Key Highlights: 1. Lead end-to-end Strategic Sourcing processes 2. Develop and manage strategic suppliers to drive innovation 3. Collaborate cross-functionally with various departments across the company **About the Role:** **Who We Are:** ------------------- Clarios is the global leader in advanced energy storage solutions and the owner of the renowned Heliar battery brand! We partner with our customers to meet the growing demand for smarter applications. Our workforce of 16,000 people develops, manufactures, and distributes a broad portfolio of products for virtually every type of vehicle. Our technologies deliver next-generation sustainable performance and bring reliability, safety, and comfort to everyday life. We add value across the entire supply chain, contributing to the progress of the communities we serve and the planet we share. **Role Details:** --------------------- As a **Senior Buyer**, you will be responsible for strategically managing the MRO (Maintenance) category, ensuring competitiveness, supply continuity, quality, and cost optimization, as well as supporting, as needed, other Indirect Procurement categories. We seek a candidate with strong strategic vision, an analytical mindset, and outstanding negotiation skills who can build solid relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers, driving efficiency, governance, and sustainable value creation for the business. This position requires a principled professional committed to results, customer-centric, willing to challenge the status quo, and able to win together with the team—reflecting Clarios’ values in all interactions. **What You’ll Do:** ------------------------- * Strategically manage the MRO (Maintenance) category, ensuring competitiveness, quality, supply continuity, and cost optimization; * Lead end-to-end Strategic Sourcing processes, including RFQ, RFP, RFI, commercial and contractual negotiations; * Conduct Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses and define short-, medium-, and long-term procurement strategies; * Develop, qualify, and manage strategic suppliers to drive innovation, mitigate risks, and strengthen the supply chain; * Lead complex negotiations with strategic suppliers to reduce structural costs, improve productivity, and generate sustainable value; * Ensure proper issuance, management, and tracking of purchase orders, contracts, and compliance with internal policies and established SLAs; * Collaborate closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and EHS teams; * Monitor supplier performance metrics and drive continuous improvement in cost, quality, and service; * Contribute to strengthening governance, process efficiency, and procurement maturity; * Support, as needed, other Indirect Procurement categories such as CAPEX, Facilities, technical services, and packaging. **What We Expect From You:** ---------------------------- * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related fields; * Solid experience managing the MRO (Maintenance) category; * Experience in Indirect Procurement; * Proficiency in Strategic Sourcing tools (RFQ, RFP, proposal comparison analysis, TCO); * Knowledge of Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay processes; * Advanced Excel skills for cost analysis and decision-making; * Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP, QAD, Oracle, or similar; * Knowledge of supplier management, KPIs, and continuous improvement; * Intermediate English proficiency; * Analytical, strategic, resilient profile with strong relationship-building and influencing capabilities. ### **Preferred Qualifications:** * Experience with categories such as CAPEX, Facilities, packaging, and technical services; * Experience in industrial, automotive, chemical, or metallurgical environments; * Knowledge of Power BI; * Familiarity with automation, data analytics, and continuous improvement. **Work Location:** ---------------------- * Sorocaba/SP (hybrid model) **Working Hours:** ------------------------ * 8:00 AM – 5:16 PM **What We Offer:** ------------------------- * Health insurance (Unimed or Sul América); * Profit-sharing program (PPR); * Annual bonus program; * Private pension plan; * Birthday day off; * Life insurance; * Dental plan; * On-site meal allowance; * Food basket; * Social club; * Wellhub (Gympass); * Credit cooperative (COGEM). At Clarios, we achieve success and win together—as one team—offering equal opportunities to all individuals. We hire and promote the best and brightest talent. During our selection processes, decisions are based on competencies, aspirations, and performance. We do what is right—providing fair employment opportunities without tolerance for discrimination. For those interested in applying for positions at Clarios: please note that the company never requests any form of payment, reimbursement, or money transfer as part of the selection process. Our hiring processes are completely free of charge for applicants. **About Clarios:** Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). **To All Recruitment Agencies**: Clarios does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Clarios employees or any other company location. Clarios is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs. **Equal Employment Opportunity:** Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email Special.Accommodations@Clarios.com. **A Note to Job Applicants**: please be aware of scams being perpetrated through the Internet and social media platforms. Clarios will never require a job applicant to pay money as part of the application or hiring process.