#1: Build and Manage 5 years purchase strategies

• Deliver a resilient purchasing strategy based on a forward risk management methodology

• Anticipate future innovations & technology revolutions to envision the right 5-year sourcing plan

• Act and advocate at institutional & industrial networking level to create the long-term successful conditions of our strategies

#2: Build & lead a sustainable panel to support Decathlon’s evolution

• Lead global sourcing activities, suppliers scouting to enrich our Industrial Network 

• Build worldwide panel of suppliers answering the needs of each region,

• Engage Decathlon with the bests for Industrial and Innovative partnership alliances through mutual engaging projects

• Accompany Production Countries to animate suppliers on Environmental, Human and Decarbonation compliance & projects

• Ensure the proper Industrial Costing & Pricing management throughout the Network of Production Countries and Suppliers

#3: Enable data driven decision through intelligence piloting

• Build the proper reportings of our Purchasing spendings and performances

• Build proper costing / pricing tools & processes all along the product life cycle, from kick-off to mass production and onwards

• Understand and knowledgeable of global world geopolitical situations and macroeconomics

• Understand markets and competitors developments and practices helping to run confident decision processes

The Knit Purchase and Methods team promotes diversity with a multicultural team.

Our 10 team members have diverse expertise on components and purchases that allow us to influence, train and reach the next level in different domains.

Indus&Planet Lovers, we are passionate about process optimisation to catch the best cost and lowest Co2 impact. 

As a Component Strategic Buyer, your role is to deliver and deploy a global 5-year Purchase Strategy embracing all topics and stakes embodied in our Corporate project. 

Responsible for building the component KNIT Supplier Panel of Decathlon, you write a Worldwide Purchasing Strategy based on forward Risk Management methodology. 

• Master degree in Engineering and/or Business

• A successful experience of min 3 years in component Textile and/or in Purchase

• Strategic and long term vision mindset

• You are strong in functional management 

• Managerial courage, you are able to convince

• Indus lover and curious: you like to go On  site

• Organized and rigorous, you are at ease with figure and data analysis

• Sustainable development motivation

• English is a must!

• Excel / Slides proper command will be necessary 

• Main interactions are (but not limited to):

• Production Countries: Process Leaders and Production Team Managers

• Suppliers: Owners & Managing Directors | Decision Makers

• Design & Offer teams: Technical director, Engineers, Offer Manager, etc… 

• Management: Industrial Process, Production Zone & Value Chain Leaders