Purchasing Manager

Main Duties

• Implement the Group’s Purchasing strategies
• • Propose and implement action plans required to ensure compliance with Purchasing strategies
  • Suggest ways to optimize costs within the framework of the defined Purchasing strategy
  • Suggest ways to improve technical productivity at his/her site
  • Take part in defining the annual productivity objectives for his/her activity
  • Make the decisions required to optimize his/her results
  • Work to continuously improve Purchasing activity 
• Manage purchases for his/her site(s)
• • Negotiate purchases with suppliers (production and non-production)
  • Help to reduce stock and to improve supplier payment terms
  • Prevent and handle supplier disputes
  • Ensure compliance with regulations in force
  • Manage updates or update purchasing prices for listed items
  • Help to monitor quality objectives to be reached by suppliers; Monitor and implement associated action plans
  • Play a proactive role in all site-related negotiations (quality, cost, deadline, services)
• Help to continuously improve the purchasing activity
• • Compile required reports to meet deadlines
  • Pass on information required for their activity to buyers, supplier quality representatives, specifiers, and internal customers
  • Capitalize on information obtained within the framework of his/her activity, prepare feedback, and make this information available to other employees
• Help to achieve purchasing productivity
• • In liaison with commodity buyers, develop productivity schedules
  • Monitor purchasing productivity schedules for his/her site
  • Propose the assignment of series markets to the Sourcing Committee

Responsibilities in terms of Quality, Safety, Environmental Progress

• Use and follow processes, instruction sheets and appendices and propose improvements.
• Integrate legal, accounting and fiscal requirements and internal safety prevention/protection and environmental rules into his/her purchasing role and ensure compliance with these rules.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business or Engineering preferred
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
  • SAP experience is preferred
  • Automotive experience preferred with basic technical understanding of injection molded components
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office with specific expertise in Outlook, Excel and Project
  • High level of analytical ability to deal with unusual and complex issues
  • Basic accounting or finance skills to read and interpret components of an income statement
  • Cost breakdown analysis
  • Must be able to conduct negotiations with suppliers as well as internal customers to deliver the goals and objectives of the organization
  • Functional expertise in MRP database systems
  • Excellent communication skills (presentation, written, verbal) of both technical and non-technical
  • Demonstrated ability to build bridges between different functional areas, resolve conflict, and help internal teams understand needs of other groups, while developing collaborative solutions and ensuring deadlines are met