Purchasing & Supply Assistant (apprenticeship)

Connect with Eutelsat Group

Be part of a new era in communications, transforming connectivity with Eutelsat Group – the world’s first GEO-LEO integrated global satellite operator.

As a global leader in satellite communications, we provide infinite connectivity, broadcasting television channels and packages, transmitting news reports, provide wholesale broadband Internet access services.

With Eutelsat Group You’ll Get To:

• Pioneer the future of Space Technology
• Bring connectivity to remote frontiers
• Collaborate with customer-centric experts
• Embrace cultural diversity in our global team

Where your skills ignite opportunities & you will elevate your skills in a stretching, rewarding, and meaningful environment. At Eutelsat Group, we’re united by inclusion and diversity, striving for gender balance and social responsibility, on Earth and in Space.

Who You Are: 

You will be an apprentice purchasing & supply assistant, reporting to the SUPPLY RESPONSIBLE within the Purchasing Department.

What You’ll Do:

• You will be involved in : The Purchase to Pay process
• You take part in: Various Purchasing Department meetings - upcoming projects.
• You will support: Internal customers, buyers in the smooth placing and follow-up of orders.
• You will be responsible for: data quality in the purchasing section of the SAP4 ERP.
• You will be responsible for: processing purchase requisitions, placing orders. You will handle first-level disputes and litigation with suppliers, in coordination with buyers, internal customers and the accounting department. You manage and monitor supplier relations (referencing, document management, due diligence, etc.).
• You prepare and manage the various performance indicators for the procurement team.

What it Takes:

• You are preparing a Bac 4 diploma in (Purchasing/Supply chain + Work-study schedule if applicable (preferably: 3 weeks on the job - one week at school).
• You are familiar with tools such as SAP
• You have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team (Group Purchasing Department).
• You have a sufficient level of professional English to be able to communicate both orally and in writing with internal customers, subsidiaries and suppliers.

What We’d Love:

• Knowledge of Excel, accounting and logistics a plus
• Rigorous, good interpersonal skills, quick-witted, versatile

Where You’ll Be:

• You will be based at the Issy-Les-Moulineaux site, a stimulating, modern, intercultural location at the heart of France's telecoms industry, and close to transport links!

The Eutelsat Group treats the protection of personal data submitted to it seriously. By submitting this application, you agree to the collection and retention of your personal data by the Eutelsat group and acknowledge notice of, and understand the terms of Eutelsat’s Privacy Policy (as amended from time to time).

This role is a Eutelsat Group job opening; all of our open roles are posted on the current OneWeb and Eutelsat websites. Please note that when you are applying, your application may be seen by both teams.