Senior Buyer
Senior Buyer
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17-04-2025
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Job Description
Job role: Senior Buyer
For a French origin international organization specializing in the manufacturing of springs and Mechanical components.
Job Responsibilities:
Supplier Identification and Validation
- Identify select and validate potential new suppliers for the Group in India ensuring alignment with the companys technical and commercial objectives.
- Negotiate and secure optimal purchasing conditions for raw materials components and subcontracting considering cost cash flow quality and delivery timelines.
Local Office Management
- Oversee the establishment of a local Indian buying office including the recruitment and management of a French trainee or equivalent and a parttime quality/technical consultant.
Strategic Expansion
- Assess the feasibility and strategic interest to participate of setting up a manufacturing site in India.
Coordination and Support
- Serve as the primary interface between suppliers and various internal teams across companys sites.
- Support the resolution of supply chain challenges by providing local logistics assistance.
Working Environment
Internal
- Reports to the Asia Director and works closely with the Group Purchasing Director.
- Collaborates with buyers from other sites.
- Based in India operating initially from a business center under a PEO arrangement for 12 years.
External
- Direct interaction with suppliers and subcontractors.
Key Activities:
- Research and monitor opportunities for new suppliers through fairs forums networking and online platforms.
- Manage the supplier evaluation process including the administration of assessment questionnaires.
- Support company plants with local logistics during supply chain disruptions.
- Support company plants for quality issues with supplier by following up local action plan improvement and implementation of corrective action.
Requirements
Required Skills:
- Strong negotiation skills to persuade and reach agreements with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Basic knowledge of auditing standards (ISO IATF).
- High level of organization and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in English French is a plus.
- Expertise in commercial negotiation techniques.
- Wellestablished network of Indian metal raw material suppliers.
- 10 to 15 years experience in a tiers 1 automotive costumers as purchaser for Stainless steel or carbon steel wire / strip /cable products is a plus.
- Good basic of quality management in supplier side.
- Wiling to travel 50 of the time in INDIA but also worldwide (EUROPE THAILANDE CHINA AMERICA
- Minimum Bachelors degree or ideally masters degree with a technical major
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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