Strategic Buyer
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Job Location:
Alblasserdam - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
- Alblasserdam
- Hybrid
Job Description
As a strategic buyer you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of buying commodities across all Europe. You will report into the Supply Chain Director and part of an international team of Strategic Buyers based in France and the Netherlands.
As a buyer you will be in charge of selection and sourcing of suppliers negotiating terms and conditions solving issues related to technical requirements delivery quality and compliance to support the sales company activities. You will manage several categories of tractor components and each category has some existing suppliers. The majority of suppliers are within Europe and traveling within Europe is foreseen in the role. You develop strong and long-lasting supplier relationships to realize substantial improvements in the supply chains in terms of delivery performance quality overall-cost etc.
You work in close cooperation with colleagues across Europe and Japan in logistics/supply chain R&D assembly and finance.
Key Responsibilities
Optimize suppliers delivery performance;
. Negotiate cost reduction with all suppliers.
Work with the Procurement Planning team to meet inventory targets;
Work with local teams ( R&D Marketing ) to ensure that pricing lead-time strategies and - opportunities are implemented and deployed at site level.
Secure overall competitiveness by continuous development of your supplier base;
Analyze spend per supplier and customer-group;
Identify and contract preferred suppliers
Search for new/alternative/second source suppliers;
Develop the existing supplier base to an industry leading level;
Set savings targets per subcategory and track cost reduction.
Key Skills
- Finance Control
- Finance
- ABAP
- Body Care
- Avionics
- Brokerage
About Company
About the company Lay the groundwork for tomorrow with Kubota! Since 1890, Kubota has evolved in a unique way worldwide. With a strong will to solve problems in food, water and the environment, we have leveraged our strength as a manufacturer and a solutions provider. Spanning across ... View more
