Tactical Buyer - Italian speaker

IBM
IBM

Accounting & Finance

Budapest, Hungary

Posted on Jun 24, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM’s transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You’ll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact. IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM is looking for a self-driven procurement professional, with fluent Italian and English language knowledge to support its prestigious Client from the Semi-conductor industry, headquartered in the USA as Tactical Buyer.

The main responsibilities of the Tactical Sourcing Buyer are:

  • Manage tactical sourcing projects (i.e. spot buy, project-based purchasing) individually.
  • Perform periodic analyses within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and tactical initiatives. Support Category Managers’ work and the Category strategy as required.
  • Negotiate and contract suppliers.

Additional responsibilities

  • Provide multi-category support assigned by the sourcing lead, coming from main stakeholders.
  • Execute competitive bid events.
  • Analyze changing client/market conditions.
  • Interface with Strategic Sourcing Team to implement strategic contracts at a tactical level.
  • Support client specific category strategies.
  • Re-direct tactical spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate.
  • Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels.
  • Track and report supplier performance, resolve supplier issues.
  • Stakeholder relationship management
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Fluent Italian and English language skills both verbal and written
  • Knowledge of sourcing and procurement processes
  • Client facing skills
  • Project Management
  • Negotiation expertise
  • Supplier relationship management expertise
  • Accurate project documentation competency
Preferred technical and professional experience

IT Skills: Lotus Notes, MS Office, Outlook, Ariba, SAP, etc.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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