Purchasing Manager at 80-100%

Ref 2583689 | Date: 7 Oct 2026

ECA - Etablissement Cantonal d'assurance

What if your purchasing decisions became a true value lever for an institution serving the canton of Vaud? If you have developed solid expertise in managing procurement and know how to combine rigor and diplomacy to build consensus, we want to meet you!

To strengthen our Direction des services transversaux (DST), we are looking for our future

Purchasing Manager at 80-100%

You will serve as the link between the strategic directions of the management and their concrete implementation in the field. You will become a key link in our strategy for cost control, regulatory compliance, and sustainability, in close collaboration with all our divisions.

What awaits you if you join us?

You will implement and manage procurement governance, building a shared procurement culture with all divisions, integrating our challenges of performance, sustainability, and compliance.

You will translate these objectives into an action plan that you will follow over the long term, disseminate the procurement policy and manual to the network of procurement referees and managers, guarantee their understanding and operational implementation, and detect opportunities for optimizing costs and processes.

As a mobilizing force, you will animate and support this network, accompanying each procurement stakeholder in their role. You will organize experience-sharing sessions, clarify roles, organize the sharing of practices, and intervene ahead of acquisition phases to guarantee compliance, while maintaining a qualitative panel of suppliers.

Finally, you will produce procurement analyses and indicators, and ensure regular reporting to the Management on progress and the need for arbitration.

Your profile:

You hold a higher education degree (university or HES) in management/economics or a federal diploma as a procurement specialist. A certification in Swiss public procurement ( , IDHEAP) is an asset.

You have more than 10 years of experience in procurement, including management or coordination responsibilities.

You know how to bring your interlocutors together, defend procurement rules with firmness and discernment, and transform a strategic direction into measurable actions. You master common office tools as well as ERP-type systems, and know how to structure data for clear dashboards.

Equipped with very good writing and communication skills, you perfectly master French, both orally and in writing.

Does this opportunity inspire you?

We look forward to receiving your application by 26 October 2026. A cover letter is not required. We simply invite you to attach your CV, all your work certificates and diplomas, as well as 3 to 4 lines describing how your profile echoes the position and your salary aspirations.

And the next steps:

We process and respond to all applications. For those people we wish to meet, we will contact you by telephone to invite you to a 1st interview. The process will continue with a workplace behavioral preferences questionnaire, followed by a 2nd interview to discuss it. You will meet your future manager as well as a person from human resources.

Do you have any questions? Do not hesitate to contact Alain Decker, recruitment officer, at .

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