**Procurement & Logistics Engineering Specialist**:
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**This position reports to**:
Production Development Manager
**Your responsibilities**:
- Coordinates all Procurement activities for Research and Development (R&D) projects.
Acts as interface between the Technology Project Team, the Local Division Procurement teams and Division Procurement Category Managers, ensuring that project information is adequately shared between the Project Team and the various Procurement teams.
- Responsible for all Procurement gate model activities, arranging project Procurement gate meetings as required and creating and maintaining the project related to Procurement documents.
- Responsible for initial cost and quality estimates and achieving product cost and quality targets.
Works to optimize the cost and quality at all stages of the development projects including investment and test cost.
- Works with the local Procurement team and Division Category Managers to find new potential materials or new potential suppliers for critical materials.
Selects, with the support of local Procurement team and Division Category Managers, the prototype suppliers and final production material suppliers, in line with product cost requirements, future product footprint requirements and Procurement strategies, while ensuring sustainable quality and cost.
- Manages directly with the suppliers for each project the ordering and on time delivery of the prototype parts in line with the critical project development and testing plan.
Works to minimize the prototype and out-turn sample delivery time to reduce overall project timeline.
- Works to optimize the cost at all stages of the development projects including testing.
Compares and develops the best value chain for the new product considering packaging cost, transportation and logistics cost, import duties and currency risk.
- Supports the development of new lower cost suppliers to meet the level required for sustainable quality and on time delivery.
- Risk management.
Manages supply risk by eliminating single sources for new critical components.
**Your background**:
- +5 years of experience working in operational tasks in manufacturing industries; production schedules.
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineer, International Business, Administration (training in Supply Chain).
- Experience in SAP and supply chain.
- Advanced Excel level.
Negotiation skills.
- Comply with all the procedures and instructions of the Integrated Management System; Lean Six Sigma.
- Demonstrated experience working with enterprise resource planning and standard operating procedures
- A collaborative, solution-focused approach and strong written and spoken communication skills
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