**What you will do**:
**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**:
- ** Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or related technical area**:
- ** +3 years experience in purchasing or related discipline (**Direct Materials**)**:
- Experience in electronics (Desirable)
- ** Demonstrated leadership skills in communications and supplier relations**:
- ** Strong negotiating skills**:
- ** Exposure to commodity sourcing activity**: