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Senior Buyer (Capital projects)

Requisition ID
2025-12967
# of Openings
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time
Location
LV-Riga

Your Role at Cabot

Work through established contracts for centrally sourced items and/or through the selection of vendors and suppliers for non-centrally sourced items. May negotiate local contracts. Depending on organizational structure, it may provide leadership and guidance to less experienced members of the Purchasing team.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Procure high-value items for multiple sites, utilizing established contracts and managing bid requests.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to identify purchasing needs and execute related tasks, including document generation and purchase order approval.
  • Identify cost-effective methods for purchasing small and local items, utilizing tools like extended payment terms and blanket orders to minimize administrative efforts and costs.
  • Research and develop cost-effective sourcing options, maintain a supply base, and consolidate suppliers to streamline purchases.
  • Foster and maintain positive business relationships with vendors and users.
  • Ensure on-time delivery of quality goods and services at agreed prices. Resolve commercial conflicts and quality issues through Purchasing Managers or directly with suppliers.
  • Assess supplier performance for Regional or Global purchases. Report on cost reduction and other metrics. Analyze trends to identify efficiency opportunities.
  • Provide training and leadership as needed. May lead projects or locations, guiding Purchasing staff.
  • Support sustainability and regulatory initiatives per site/region requirements.
  • Participate and support product management and/or product development projects as necessary.
  • Identify and highlight potential cost saving opportunities to the purchasing team.
  • Partner with site capital and project management teams to ensure successful delivery of capital projects in the region.
  • Ensure that procurement plans are established and maintained for assigned projects and/or sites.
  • Contribute to the procurement and contracting strategy, change management, supplier relationship management, and execution of the category management strategies as directed by Capital leadership team.
  • Participate as an active member of the capital sourcing team sharing learnings, best practices, market trends, and supplier intelligence across region.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • University degree in Business, Science or Engineering or equivalent experience. 
  • 3+ years purchasing experience, preferably with projects management and capital projects.
  • Knowledge of engineering, fabrication or construction industries will be considered as advantage.
  • Good knowledge of contract design. Understanding of marketplace relating to goods and services purchased. 
  • Advanced computer skills; including knowledge of MS office (incl. Teams) and purchasing applications.
  • Strong negotiations skills and general understanding of business issues and financial principles.
  • The ability to engage in verbal and written communications that are direct, concise, clear and relevant and delivered in an appropriate manner.
  • Strong communications skills towards leadership teams as well as stakeholders.
  • Fluent in English, knowledge of other European languages will be considered as an advantage, but not essential.
  • Positive mindset and teamwork spirit.

Additional Information:

  • Salary: 2300 - 2600 EUR Gross depending on experience.
  • Working hours: 9:00 - 17:30.
  • Health insurance from first day of work.
  • Monthly allowance & yearly bonus. 
  • 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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