Job Responsibilities

• Leads Strategic Buying Asia (evaluates performance of staff, develops and manages cost centres and budget, disseminate information)
• Be an interface to the Product Group’s and R&D to ensure early involvement of Strategic Buying and suppliers into all relevant internal and external project activities (focus on Asia)
• Ensure the establishment of a competitive global supply chain which provides for sustainable reductions of total cost and integrates seamless into the purchasing and production (assembly) processes
• Negotiate contracts with none product and product related suppliers (PR & NPR). Negotiate prices based on open calculation, lead-time, landed cost, and T&C’s
• Prepare analysis and statistics to control (e.g. material cost tracking) and support the sourcing strategy and the strategic planning.
• Contribute to the definition, drive the implementation and executes the company’s Supply Chain Strategy.
• Maintain data in ERP-system and on Community drives (make sure that all necessary purchasing parameters (vendor data, contracts) are given and stored properly and take appropriate actions whenever necessary)
• Establish, implement and manage a system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance (SSM KPI’s)

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field, or technical / commercial degree (technical background recommended).
• Min. 10 years progressive experience in similar position of sourcing in a manufacturing environment (preferable in technical environment).
• Experience in strategic supplier management, vendor management & contract management.