Junior Project Buyer - Maternity leave - Pianezza | Valeo Job

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Valeo Group is one of the world's largest Automotive suppliers which is an inspired company focused on innovative products, development and customer satisfaction. Working with us means managing the most advanced and sophisticated technologies.

Our Pianezza (To) plant is part of our Light Business Group in charge of developing and manufacturing Lighting Products and Electronics. From the latest adaptive lighting technologies to intuitive interior lighting solutions to stylish and design-centric external lighting, Valeo constantly innovates to improve comfort and safety for drivers and passengers alike.

We are searching for a Junior Project Buyer (m/f/d) for a maternity leave in Valeo Pianezza you will have the opportunity to work with the most powerful carmaker companies, in the electronics development working in an international and multicultural environment.

Your challenges?

• Lead and support all purchasing activities throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initial planning and supplier selection to final project closure, ensuring all milestones are successfully met
• Develop and implement comprehensive sourcing strategies in alignment with project and commodity goals to achieve optimal quality, cost, and delivery conditions
• Manage the end-to-end supplier relationship, including bid-list selection, risk assessment (financial, technical, capacity), and coordinating supplier design and development activities to ensure full compliance with requirements
• Execute the complete RFQ process, utilizing negotiation and auction tactics to secure the best possible terms and make final sourcing decisions that meet project targets
• Drive and forecast project purchasing performance, lead productivity initiatives to achieve cost-saving targets, and ensure a smooth and documented transition from the project phase to serial production

Let’s talk about you:

• You are graduated from a Bachelor or Master Degree (Economics or Engineering)
• A first experience in a purchasing or procurement position is required (6-9 months)
• You are proactive, convincing, persistent, pragmatic and facilitator
• You can speak Italian (as native language) and have a fluent English. French would be a nice to have!

Package

Fix term contract - maternity leave

LIV B2 CCNL Metalmeccanico

Gross Annual Salary 33.500 €

Valeo sees the diversity of its employees as a key asset across all of its businesses, in all its forms – including gender diversity, disability diversity, cultural diversity and intergenerational diversity.

Don´t miss the opportunity of joining us and take advantage of being part of an international company that commits to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism and teamwork. Is that you? We want to know you!

     

Job:

Project Buyer

Organization:

Projects

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Type:

Fixed-Term Contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-09-29

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com