Job DescriptionPrimary Function of Position: Develop, lead and execute purchasing strategies for all tactical procurement (direct and indirect).Responsible of all purchasing process related with direct and indirect components, materials and services to support manufacturing operations.Responsible to align capabilities and leading tactical buyers in multiple locations and countries.Ensure the optimal inventory levels through the application of lean manufacturing initiatives.With the purchasing team's support ensure the correct supply of components, materials and number of parts to maintain material health targets.Drive internal adoption to established procurement policy and process, strategic sourcing, supplier selection (Specifically for indirect) - proposal analysis, SOW clarification, contract negotiations (Indirect), supplier database management and purchase order creation.Support Strategic Purchasing in developing sourcing strategies to achieve aggressive cost reduction targets while driving for a high quality and highly flexible and responsive supply-base.Assist in driving key procurement initiatives to support the ongoing transformation and continuous improvement of systems and processes in the procurement organization along with other projects as directed by management.Ensures compliance with regulations such as SOX, Incoterms, and corporate internal controls.Supports new processes, special programs and new production lines in indirect purchasing assuring adequate delivery, quality and cost of equipment and tools needs for projects.Roles & Responsibilities: Management of buyers Creates, trains and supports purchasing buyers on standard work, in order to maintain consistency in quality and quantity of work output.Purchase order approvalAlerts Strategic Purchasing when supplier capacity outputs need to be raised to support operations.Select talent, train, and develop skills of purchasing department.Lead buyers to meet target metrics.Management of overall team performance including annual appraisalsPhase in and phase out of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) for all buyers.Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on task, player-coach; ability to step in and perform hard tasks.Supplier Management Ensure suppliers meet key performance objectives.Lead development of supplier strategies to meet Company performance and growth.Support supply risk assessmentIf required participate in supplier audits, and capability assessments.Provide data for forecast and performance reviews with key suppliers to support supply planning and buffer demand volatility.Production Support Track line down occurrences due to material shortages and perform root cause analysis.Implement corrective actions to remove supply chain risk.Ensure expeditious delivery of all critical materials.Drive improvement initiatives with production management as applicableCost and Contracting Support annual cost reductions to achieve corporate initiative plan.Lead implementation of business and quality agreements with key indirect suppliers to secure expectations for delivery, quality, cost and other obligations of the business relationshipSupports standard cost setting activities.Inventory Management Implement inventory management techniques (Kanban) to increase raw material inventory turns performance.Manage excess and obsolescence review process.Systems Increase productivity of buyers by reducing/eliminating administrative tasks required by ERP system.Schedule agreement / control cycleAutomating purchase orders placementOnline quotingPaperless record managementDrawingsRegulatory OEM complaintsImprove system reports, create new tableau reports/tools/automation improvements.Tools maintenance Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.
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