Buyer, Indirect Purchasing, Regional Commodity Date: Jul 15, 2026 Location: Breganze, IT Workplace Type: Onsite Role Overview The Category Buyer is responsible for managing the sourcing of multiple sub‐categories within a broader category. This role ensures supplier strategy alignment, cost optimisation, contract negotiation, and risk management while supporting the overall category strategy led by the Global Category Manager Procurement and Regional Category Manager Procurement.

The Category

Buyer plays a key role in supplier selection, market analysis, cost negotiations, and ensuring supplier performance meets business requirements. Success is measured by spend addressed, value delivered, and overall service to stakeholders.

Your Impact Accountable for savings target execution for Operations and Facilities categories in Italy.

Supplier Management: Identify, qualify, and manage supplier relationships, including performance evaluations and contract negotiations.

Contract Negotiation: Lead negotiations to secure favourable terms, pricing, and conditions.

Cost Optimisation: Drive initiatives for cost reduction and process improvements.

Responsible for RFx preparation, execution, and analysis. For commodities in scope develop, and/or assist Regional and Global Category Managers to execute long‐term strategy deployment, supplier cost modelling, supplier opportunity assessments, supplier financial analysis, make/buy analyses, negotiations, long‐term contract establishment, continuous supplier performance improvement, and supplier relationship development.

Assist the Regional and Global Category Managers in successfully contracting suppliers to provide AGCO with cost‐optimised commodities.



Develop a solid working knowledge of certain category trends including industry trends and cost drivers.

Manages priorities and competing demands, with a sense of optimism, flexibility, and ownership, effectively managing internal customer expectations including special projects.

Required Experience and Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

Minimum 3 years of prior experience in sourcing, preferably in indirect operations categories, with knowledge of the Purchase‐to‐Pay process.

Team player capable of working in a multicultural environment, constantly seeking improvements, driving change, motivating others, with strong analytical, influencing, and negotiation skills. Action‐oriented and capable of working independently.

Good knowledge of ERP systems, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Excellent communication skills in English and Italian.

Attractive, fair remuneration including participation in our premio scheme.

Balance of work, family and free time owing to flexible working time.

Private health insurance with partial coverage of medical expenses.

Canteen with meal allowance.

Workplace

You will work 4 days onsite from our Breganze site.

Compensation Applicable salary range: €35,000 – €55,000 gross annual salary. The compensation range specified in this posting is indicative. Final remuneration will be determined based on the candidate's experience, skills and qualifications, in compliance with applicable EU pay transparency and pay equity regulations.

We value inclusion and recognise the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.

📌 Buyer, Indirect Purchasing, Regional Commodity (Breganze)
🏢 Agco
📍 Breganze