Purchasing Manager at 80-100%

What if your purchasing decisions became a true value lever for an institution serving the canton of Vaud? If you have developed solid expertise in managing purchasing and know how to combine rigor and diplomacy to bring people together, we want to meet you!

To strengthen our Direction des services transversaux (DST), we are looking for our future

Purchasing Manager at 80-100%

You will act as the link between the management's strategic orientations and their concrete implementation in the field. You will become a key link in our strategy for cost control, regulatory compliance, and sustainability, in close collaboration with all our divisions.

What awaits you if you join us?

You will implement and manage purchasing governance, building a shared purchasing culture with all divisions, integrating our challenges of performance, sustainability, and compliance.

You will translate these objectives into an action plan that you will follow over the long term, disseminate the purchasing policy and manual to the network of purchasing referents and managers, guarantee their understanding and operational implementation, and detect opportunities for cost and process optimization.

As a mobilizing force, you will animate and support this network, accompanying each purchasing stakeholder in their role. You will organize experience-sharing sessions, clarify roles, organize the sharing of practices, and intervene ahead of acquisition phases to guarantee compliance, while maintaining a qualitative panel of suppliers.

Finally, you will produce purchasing analyses and indicators, and ensure regular reporting to the Management on progress and the need for arbitration.

Your profile:

You hold a higher education degree (university or HES) in management/economics or a federal diploma as a purchasing specialist. A certification in Swiss public procurement ( , IDHEAP) is an asset.

You have more than 10 years of experience in purchasing, including management or coordination responsibilities.

You know how to unite your interlocutors, defend purchasing rules with firmness and discernment, and transform a strategic orientation into measurable actions. You are proficient in common office tools as well as ERP-type systems, and know how to structure data for clear dashboards.

Possessing very good writing and communication skills, you perfectly master French, both orally and in writing.

Does this opportunity inspire you?

We look forward to receiving your application by 26 October 2026. A cover letter is not required. We simply invite you to attach your CV, all your work certificates and diplomas, as well as 3 to 4 lines describing how your profile echoes the position and your salary aspirations.

And what follows:

We process and respond to all applications. For the people we wish to meet, we will contact you by telephone to invite you to a 1st interview. The process will continue with a workplace behavioral preferences questionnaire, followed by a 2nd interview to discuss it. You will meet your future manager as well as a person from human resources.

Do you have any questions? Do not hesitate to contact Alain Decker, recruitment officer, at .

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