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Head of works purchasing
Métropole de Saint-Étienne · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · Closes in 16 days
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1 Check the conditions You are here
Civil servants and contract staff. Posts open to the grades of attaché, attaché principal, ingénieur and ingénieur principal. A contract worker may be hired if no civil servant application has succeeded.
Category: Category A (executive)
Diploma: Bac + 5 in a university track or engineering school, preferably construction, purchasing, public law or real estate and construction law
Experience: Not stated. A plus: experience in public contracts and buying building works
The profile they look for:
- Thorough knowledge of building trades
- Mastery of purchasing and negotiation techniques
- Good knowledge of public contracts and public purchasing procedures
- Good computer skills, ideally Microsoft Office 365
- Good people skills, persistence and persuasiveness
2 Résumé and cover letter
A one- or two-page résumé and a short cover letter that takes up the duties of the offer with your examples. If you are a civil servant, you are often asked for your latest status decision (arrêté) and your latest annual review reports.
3 Apply
Deadline: November 15 (Closes in 16 days)
Apply on the employer’s site, using the « Apply on employer site » button on the official offer page. Civil servants can submit their application directly online.
4 Interview and answer
If your application is shortlisted, the employer contacts you for an interview, often with two or three people. Prepare: why this job, your experience close to the duties, and your questions.
Good to know:
- Post vacant from 15/11/2026
- Category A (managerial) job
- A 3-year fixed-term contract may be offered to a contract worker
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