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Senior Buyer IT & Professional Services

Requisition ID
2025-12858
# of Openings
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time
Location
LV-Riga

Your Role at Cabot

You will be responsible for obtaining goods and services to meet the needs of multiple business stakeholders. You will work through established contracts for centrally sourced goods and services and, when necessary, select vendors and suppliers for non-centrally sourced goods and services. Additionally, you will negotiate local and regional contracts in alignment with Category requirements. Depending on the organizational structure, you may also provide guidance to less experienced members of the Purchasing team.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Procuring complex, high-value items for business stakeholders and managing bid requests for independently sourced goods.
  • Working with internal customers to understand and translate their purchasing needs.
  • Generating documents, purchase orders, and approving orders within set spending limits.
  • Identifying cost-effective purchasing methods, using tools like procurement cards and blanket orders.
  • Implementing purchasing tools and researching new cost-effective sources.
  • Maintaining a supply base and reducing the number of active suppliers.
  • Building positive relationships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and users.
  • Ensuring timely delivery of goods/services that meet quality, timing, and price terms, and resolving commercial conflicts with suppliers.
  • Coordinating with vendors and internal teams to finalize purchasing details.
  • Evaluating supplier performance, analyzing trends, and identifying efficiency opportunities.
  • Ensuring compliance with purchasing ethics, regulations, and company standards.
  • Providing training and, if needed, leading teams at certain locations.
  • Demonstrating strong knowledge of Professional Services and IT categories.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.  Purchasing certification or equivalent preferred.
  • 5+ years industry-related purchasing experience.
  • Strong knowledge of Purchasing in a multinational industry, contract design, and the marketplace for Professional Services and Digital/IT categories. Basic understanding of business and financial principles.
  • Proficient in office and purchasing tools (e.g., Coupa, Savings Reporting tools).
  • Effective verbal and written communicator with negotiation skills. Ability to guide and instruct others.
  • Customer-focused, committed to delivering high-quality service.
  • Fluent in English.

Additional Information 

  • Working Hours: 9:00 - 17:30
  • Salary: 2200 - 2500 EUR Gross.
  • Permanent contract.
  • Monthly allowance & Yearly bonus.
  • Health insurance from first day of work.
  • Hybrid work schedule (3 days on site and 2 days’ work from home).

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About Cabot


Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.


EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001


Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay


This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

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