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Behind everything we do for our farmers, there is one AGCO team making it happen. We are proud to put our curiosity to work, building a better and more sustainable world. Join our extraordinary team today!\nThe Category Buyer is responsible for managing the sourcing of multiple sub-categories within a broader category. This role ensures supplier strategy alignment, cost optimization, contract negotiation, and risk management while supporting the overall category strategy led by the Global Category Manager Procurement and Regional Category Manager Procurement.\nThe Category Buyer plays a key role in supplier selection, market analysis, cost negotiations, and ensuring supplier performance meets business requirements. This role requires strong analytical skills, negotiation expertise, and the ability to work cross-functionally with Operations and Finance teams. Success measured is based on spend addressed, value delivered, and overall service to stakeholders.\nYour Impact:\nAccountable for savings target execution for Operations and Facilities categories in Italy. \nSupplier Management: Identify, qualify, and manage supplier relationships, including performance evaluations and contract negotiations. \nContract Negotiation: Lead negotiations to secure favorable terms, pricing, and conditions. \nCost Optimization: Drive initiatives for cost reduction and process improvements. \nResponsible for RFx preparation, execution, and analysis. For commodities in scope develop, and/or assist Regional and Global Category Managers to execute long-term strategy deployment, supplier cost modelling, supplier opportunity assessments, supplier financial analysis, make/buy analyses, negotiations, long-term contract establishment, continuous supplier performance improvement, and supplier relationship development. \nAssist the Regional and Global Category Managers in successfully contracting suppliers to provide AGCO with cost-optimized commodities. Develop a solid working knowledge of certain category trends including industry trends, cost drivers \nManages priorities and competing demands, with a sense of optimism, flexibility, and ownership, effectively managing internal customer expectations including special projects. \nYour Experience and Qualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree in Related Field. \nMinimum 3 years of prior experience in sourcing is a must, preferably in indirect operations categories, knowledge of Purchase-to-Pay process. \nTeam player and be able to work in a multicultural environment, always looking for improvements, be able to drive change and motivate other people, strong analytical and influencing skills, excellent negotiation skills with external suppliers, action and results driven, be able to work independently \nGood knowledge of ERP system, Excel and PowerPoint, \nExcellent communications skills in English and Italian \nYour Benefits:\nAttractive, fair remuneration including participation in our bonus scheme \nBalance of work, family and free time due to flexible working time \nPrivate health insurance with partial coverage of medical expenses \nCanteen with meal allowance \nYour Workplace:\nYou will work 4 days onsite from our Breganze site.\nWe value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. 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