Indirect Purchasing Buyer - Staff Solutions
CPT, Southern Suburbs 5 days ago Permanent Salary - Market Related
Indirect Purchasing Buyer
Staff Solutions
CPT, Southern Suburbs
Date Created : 5 days ago
Job Type : Permanent
Salary : Market Related
- Performance / Savings:
- Manage local spend based on commodities in scope
- Run sourcing processes based on needs coming from business, in line with the commodity strategies
- Perform rigorous analysis on cost base and suppliers to ensure delivery of spend targets
- Quality:
- Ensure supply of product and/or services to the business and execution of local purchasing
- Supplier management:
- Own, manage and negotiated local supplier relationships
- Manage local supplier performance (performance to SLAs, continuous improvement – cost innovation)
- Stay abreast of market conditions and trends (including global pricing benchmarks) to inform strategy and ensure supply continuity
- Commodity Management:
- Define and implement a local commodity strategy if not covered by global and/or regional teams
- Purchasing Excellence:
- Implement best practice commodity management techniques
- Implement standards, processes and tools consistent with the overall purchasing function
- Compliance:
- Comply with overall purchasing spend and preferred supplier policies, and monitor compliance of business end users
- Team and skills management:
- Participate in local and central skill development activities
- When required, organize and lead escalation meetings with supplier leadership to address disruptive suppliers that are impacting company plants and programs and jeopardizing company customer deliveries
- Propose continuous improvement ideas in business efficiency and cost reduction
- Capitalizes on knowledge and shares best practices / lessons learned across organization and within the site
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (industrial or mechanical preferred) or Business.
- Minimum 5 years’ Automotive manufacturing experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in purchasing in an industrial environment
- Experience of successfully managing and negotiating contracts
- Negotiation skills
- Supplier Management experience
- Purchasing financial skills, including data analytics, budgeting and savings calculation
- Business acumen and strategic thinking ability
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