Senior Buyer / Category Buyer - Maintenance

Grupo Barraqueiro is recruiting a Senior Buyer for the Maintenance team, with a focus on defining and conducting the sourcing strategy for assigned categories, optimizing total cost, service level, and supply risk, in alignment with the availability, reliability, and efficiency objectives of the fleet and the organization.

Grupo Barraqueiro is the largest mobility operator in the country, with road, rail, metro, and logistics transport activities. With more than a century of history, it is today one of the largest economic groups in Portugal, solid and reputable in the National and International Market, with a dynamic, motivated team committed to investing heavily in continuous training, transport safety, and the valuing of its professionals, promoting a culture of constant improvement in quality and customer service.

• Participate in the strategic planning of maintenance purchases, aligning operational needs with the availability, reliability, and efficiency objectives of the fleet;
• Define and implement sourcing strategies by category, identifying opportunities for consolidation, cost reduction, and supply risk mitigation, including the development of alternatives to single suppliers;
• Analyze consumption, maintenance history, stocks, and prices, including TCO and life cycle analyses (repair vs. replace, make-or-buy), translating them into decision-support recommendations;
• Manage the evaluation, qualification, and development of suppliers, ensuring technical, commercial, contractual, legal, and sustainability (ESG) requirements;
• Prepare and conduct complex negotiations and manage contracts and framework agreements;
• Optimize inventory policies and stock levels (availability, cost, and immobilization risk) and monitor purchasing and inventory KPIs, proposing corrective actions;
• Promote the standardization of references and the parts and services master data and participate in projects to improve the Purchasing function;
• Support the development of less experienced team members.

• Higher education in Management, Engineering, Logistics, Economics, or a similar field;
• More than 5 years of experience in technical purchasing and/or cross-functional purchasing (indirect/general), maintenance, logistics, or inventory management, preferably in fleets, transport, or industrial environments;
• Consolidated experience in sourcing, negotiation, supplier and contract management, and in stock and inventory management;
• Strong analytical capacity and proficiency in Excel; Power BI is valued;
• Structured thinking, planning capacity, and autonomy in managing multiple categories;
• Good communication and negotiation skills with technical, operational, and management areas, as well as suppliers;
• Proactive profile, oriented towards results, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing;
• Fluency in Portuguese and English, oral and written.