Mission
As a Lead Buyer Capex at Aperam, you play a key role in developing and implementing our global Capex purchasing strategy.
You support the Services & Solutions and Aperam Recycling divisions in their industrial investment projects by building strategic supplier relationships, driving innovative sourcing approaches, and ensuring effective risk management.
Together with the Global Category Manager Capex and your business stakeholders, you deliver value creation, cost optimization, and sustainable competitiveness across the group.
Your Role
As an experienced and autonomous Lead Buyer, you are responsible for the full strategic procurement cycle of Capex projects — from market strategy and tendering to negotiations, contracting, and supplier performance management.
You translate business investment needs into well-defined sourcing strategies that balance cost, quality, risk, and innovation.
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Your Profile
What We Expect from You
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Aperam is a global leader in stainless, electrical, and specialty steels, as well as recycling and renewables, serving customers in over 40 countries. Our business is structured into four segments: Stainless & Electrical Steel, Services & Solutions, Alloys & Specialties, and Recycling & Renewables.
We have a flat stainless and electrical steel production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes in Brazil and Europe, and we lead in alloys and high-value specialty products. Our industrial network includes 16 production facilities across Brazil, Belgium, France, the United States, India, and China. Aperam operates an integrated distribution, processing, and services network, with a unique ability to produce low-carbon stainless and specialty steels using biomass, stainless steel scrap, and high-performance alloys scrap.
Through BioEnergia, we produce charcoal from our own FSC®-certified forests, and with ELG - Aperam Recycling, a global leader in stainless steel and high-performance alloys recycling, we place sustainability at the core of our business, enabling our customers to thrive in the circular economy.
Join us and be part of a dynamic team where technology and innovation meets industrial transformation. Your talent and energy will help drive smarter, more sustainable solutions for a global company committed to be a leading value creator in the circular economy of infinite, world-changing materials.