Procurement Specialist - Renewable Energies (f/m/d)

For our office in Madrid, AQ Volta is looking for a

Procurement Specialist - Renewable Energies (f/m/d)

Your responsibilities

• Manage and close RFP processes and negotiation for EPC, BOS/BOP, main equipment (Modules, Structure, Inverters, WTG…) and other services.
• Develops contracting strategies and processes for tendering Requests for Proposals (RFPs), reviewing and levelizing vendor proposals, and negotiating contracts that result in the best value possible.
• Challenge scope specifications to determine where unnecessary costs can be eliminated, and more value can be achieved.
• Accountability for negotiating key supply chain agreements as well as for maintaining relationships and mutual understanding with the key industrial suppliers at executive level.
• Deal with claims mitigation and challenge cost disputes with 3rd party suppliers.
• Building positive relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Provide forward looking guidance on trends, threats, and opportunities throughout the complete value/supply chain.
• Identify new potential suppliers to create additional competitiveness and market tension.
• Ensure that all purchase orders and contracts are placed in accordance with defined business processes.
• Identifying and implementing profit improvement opportunities to create structural and sustained cost advantages.

Your qualifications

• University Degree, preferably in technical and/or financial areas.
• Ideally a minimum of 3 years' experience in the renewables energy sector.
• Experience in negotiation contracts EPC contractors and main suppliers.
• Experience in managing complex Project RFP processes and leading negotiations.
• Languages: Full fluency in the use of English and Spanish (both written and orally) considered a must. Portuguese, Italian or German considered as a plus.
• Computer literate, experience of MS Office packages (in particular Excel).
• Previous experience in procurement and market competitive analysis highly valuable.
• Previous experience in large international tenders highly valuable.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

Your prospects

The Aquila Group is a future-oriented company that combines focus, far-sightedness, ambition and independent entrepreneurial responsibility with team spirit and an outstanding corporate climate to create synergies. Combined with our employees' talents, these synergies are the key to the long-term success of our company.