Advanced Purchasing Engineer MhD BU Drive System

Responsibilities:

• Supporting activities planned by the business field to harmonize business field strategies with purchasing strategies and implement them in day-to-day activities
• Carrying out supplier evaluation to concentrate on the best suppliers and improve the current supplier base.
• Coaching and mentoring. Train the division/location members concerning AP topics for ensuring a good understanding of AP and whole Procurement process.
• Purchasing Representative in Project team from acquisition phase until SOP for Purchasing and SQM activities;
• Ensures early involvement of purchasing and suppliers;
• Sub-Project Manager for Purchasing content..
• Follow-up on supplier and material status during product development phase, e.g. requests for quotation (exception CM for categories Passives and Discretes), in-time sourcing, continuous feedback of APQP / PPAP status from SQM.
• Push design to cost / target cost process to attain the target costs derived from target costs workshop for materials;
• To reduce total material costs by fulfilling the required functions.
• Perform Cost Reduction Programs (CRP) for BU’s products after SOP, Push Re-design to cost and CRP programs.
• Project support for medium to high complex projects in business fields to deliver, on time, all related matters by optimum inputs for quotes, workshops, BOM evaluation and implementation of potential savings in the project;
• Support technical change process after SOP.
• Contributes by providing input/development and to implementation of purchasing strategies to have influence at supplier level and thus provide competitive proposals for product improvements.
• Is offering support for the carrying out benefit analysis workshops with key suppliers to concentrate on the key functions of the components/projects.
• Contributes to the preparation of sourcing decisions to guarantee sourcing decisions that correspond to the sourcing strategy.
• Is offering support for the  Second Sourcing to secure permanent supplies with competitive terms.
• Is offering support for the Market analysis (national/international) to acquire new suppliers and new technologies in the deployment of suppliers

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above
• Good spoken and written English
• Advanced Engineering knowledge (casting parts, lamination stack, magnets etc.) is required
• Familiar with SAP/Ourlook/Microsoft office application/Change management
• At least 5-7 years purchasing experience - in automotive industry
• At least 3 years’ experience in coordination of a team with minimum 5 team members.
• Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers
• Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations

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