Quedan 3 Días! Sr Buyer...

Job Description

What you will do :

Responsible for leading business unit teams in strategic planning, analysis and execution of consolidated procurement agreements and strategies that require evaluation of leading edge technology, extensive business opportunity and / or global application and coordination. Integrate supplier base with business processes and both negotiate and execute on agreements to leverage their capabilities and volume.

How you will do it :

• Negotiations : Serves on both negotiation teams and as negotiator. Supplier Agreements will have business unit in scope.
• Technical Ability : Supports strategy development and coordinates cross-functional business teams through a high level understanding of technology, value added engineering, industry and market conditions.
• Quality and Supplier Productivity : Pro-actively drive supplier productivity initiatives and jointly develop supplier quality road maps through the use of TQM principles.
• Teamwork : Serves as a motivator who seeks communication and diverse viewpoints from stakeholders.
• Supplier Capability Management : Anticipates market changes and uses them to develop commodity plans that leverage supplier capability.
• Integrated Supplier Management : Supports cross-functional initiatives to link supplier capabilities to potential product development / enhancement opportunities.
• Material Focus : Leads and facilitates cross-functional teams formulating material flow and logistics strategies to support manufacturing initiatives.
• Responsibility for achieving the business unit procurement goal – and action plans. Meet or exceed profit plan goals : cost savings, economics, supplier rationalization, NPI and other agreed objectives.
• Provide financial expertise / support in terms of supplier part specifications, tooling + investment budgets, customer conditions, cost tracking, etc. so that program targets and purchasing goals are met
• Guarantee supplier pricing control over the programs from phase 0-5 and over life time
• Coordinate the supply chain requirements e.g. when / how to source, early sourcing, cross program supplier selection etc.
• Guarantee integration and communication with global commodity teams.
• Ensure smooth project launches by controlling the acquisition, sourcing on time and in line with expectations until SOP
• Support of proper Make or Buy decisions
• In addition to the above mentioned tasks, other activities and responsibilities may be individually defined

Required Skills / Experience :