The team you will join: 

Sitting in the Purchasing department, our team dedicated to purchasing bears a lot of responsibility in the current market situation. Divided into 3 teams (direct, indirect, and projects), they all work together to source and provide L-Acoustics with the best quality resources at the lowest price within the most reasonable time frame possible. 

We are looking for a bright Project Purchasing Specialist to join the project purchasing team. 

What you will contribute to: 

Reporting to the Head of Project Purchasing, the Project Purchasing Specialist will be responsible for anticipating innovations likely to meet R&D needs, and for steering and coordinating purchases relating to various new projects, in particular: 

• Contributing to the identification and preliminary assessment of new technologies relevant to ongoing projects. 

• Assisting in drafting specifications alongside project teams (R&D, industrialization, quality). 

• Helping build and maintain a panel of potential suppliers aligned with commodity strategies. 

• Supporting supplier onboarding to ensure quality, cost, and lead‑time expectations are met. 

• Facilitating communication and information exchange between internal teams and suppliers. 

• Participating in project milestone reviews related to supplier performance (cost, quality, deadlines). 

• Assisting with basic contractual and administrative aspects to help safeguard the company’s intellectual property. 

What you will need to succeed: 

• A Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field (knowledge of electronics, plastics, or mechanical processes is a plus). 

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a project purchasing expert, or a combination of project management in an industrial setting (methods, industrialization) and a purchasing function 

• Excellent sense of humility, simplicity and partnership: our vision for our suppliers is long term, it is essential to build good relationships with them 

• A business level English proficiency. Other european languages are a plus (French, German…) 

• Ability to forge internal links with R&D, teamwork skills (quality, supply chain, production constraints), project leadership skills 

• Rigor, familiar with financial aspects of project management