Completed degree (Bachelor or Master) in the field of Business, Finance, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field and / or equivalent combination of education and experience.EXPERIENCE: At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of Automotive purchasing, experience in commodity of plactic partsAutomotive experience is requiredMain Duties and Responsibilities:Procure Indirect commodity materials
- Responsible to follow processes and lead the execution of purchasing process for local sourcing projects, including but not limited to search suppliers, create RFQ, review quotations, meet KPI requirements, in example payment terms, supplier contract negotiation, LTA agreements, benchmarking, preparing documentation for global sourcing committee, negotiate, create, send, and confirm contracts, etc., always in a timely manner.
- Visit suppliers regularly to gain manufacturing experience with his commodity materials and maintain or develop supplier relationships across the supplier organization, become proficient of supplier capabilities and understand the supplier cost structure to have consistent quotations and maintain the supplier interest to work the company.
- Understand, prioritize, and follow up on delivery dates / deadlines established by the cross functional teams.
- Guide his supplier base to work and prepare engineering estimates for different quotation rounds, deal with ambiguity and make his supplier base to work with information available at the time of quotation without waiting for final designs, with the understanding if supplier is competitive in price and returning information on time the final design will be developed together with Engineering.
- Proactive approach to resolve conflict and come / present different scenarios for resolution backed with enough data / research, rather than waiting for direction.
- Benchmarking the local production continuously to have always the most competitive pricing on his commodity materials.
- Work with Finance, accounts payable and supplier to revise invoices with wrong pricing on it.
- Collect, maintain, and evaluate all purchasing related data and orders in SAP.
- Support cross functional teams when help is needed to resolve conflict.
- Proactively searching for cost saving projects, at least one time per year organize a VAVE benchmarking event.
- Achieve annual purchasing objectives (KPI's), evaluate risks, and prepare recovery plans if needed.
- Participate in relevant Purchasing meetings and improvement projects.#J-18808-Ljbffr