These tasks await you:
- Build up and maintain portfolio strategy in line with the BA needs and define a wellbalanced portfolio to minimize risk to ensure flexibility to get an advantage position on the supplier market
- Define deliver and update a Sourcing List
- Identify and onboard new potential suppliers where the need is identified
- Identify any value improvement activities and steer implementation
- Present and align the strategies with BA stakeholders
- Handle all negotiations at the Category Supplier
- Negotiate and maintain necessary global contracts
- Support Advance Purchasing with complex / difficult negotiations
- Manage suppliers in representant of the BA
- Support Region Purchasing for Quality Supply and Commercial escalation
- Conduct market survey for the category of Investment in the Region
- Support the plants as next escalation level in case of supply problems (quality or delivery)
- Share market situation with stakeholders
- Report categories performance in regular base
- Forecast expected price development
Qualifications :
- Bachelor degree in a relevant field in exceptional cases an equivalent professional experience
- Many experience in the field of purchasing experience in the automotive are is desirable
- Strong purchasing portfolio handling (strategy supplier list market know how portfolio analyze forecast)
- Experience in RFQ Offer analyze and comparison
- Experience in risk management claim finance
- Ability to work with a remote team
- Project Management experience is a plus
- Functional or project leadership experience is a plus
- English and German language skills in written and spoken
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Many years of exposure to international business
- Willingness to travel about 30 of the time
Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.
Additional Information :
The wellbeing of our employees is important to us. Thats why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good worklife balance with additional benefits such as:
- Training opportunities
- Mobile and flexible working models
- Sabbaticals
- and much more...
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime