Position Description This position is responsible for a market scouting of Powertrain components & supplier portfolio of the Powertrain components, costs evaluations, sourcing and supplier nomination process for the powertrain components. Next ensure and manage procurement activities related to capacity planning, evaluating change requests, issuing contracts, issuing orders (tools and components), tracking parts. Ensuring activities are carried out in accordance with the VW group's procurement processes.

Check and negotiate cost optimization during an entire project lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities Pre series Activities Explore new technologies of electric vehicles and a connection to SAVWIPL projects and evaluate potentials.

Monitor raw material of powertrain components and track it

Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding

Evaluate and track costs of powertrain components and agree on real cost of the project (VSI) Sourcing Activities Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list 20 %

Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform

Gather inputs for releasing enquiry, Create and Release RFQs in system

Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBD's )

Request for Targets for part price and investments.

Do a plausibility check of offers based on cost estimation

Price negotiation and get final offers from suppliers.

Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals

Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing

Support a preparing of sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility ,

alignment with group buyers.





Present in Sourcing Committees (ISC / SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB or other

VW Group Committees)

In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER

(Targeterreichungsrunde - Target Approval Committee)

Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA

Get Sign off of Procurement Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers.

Support FS Team for Project Handover Documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and CFT (OA , R&D; , logistics , SRM) in case of any escalations.

Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in

TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3) Series Activity Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts

Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure

Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan and best possible costs level.

Annual purchase order release / contracts

Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D; , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)

Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding

Explore current technologies, alternate raw material, Value Engineering, proposals for cost reduction (SCOP€ and other similar committees & complexity reduction )





Do global sourcing and evaluate saving potentials for material cost reduction

Monitor raw material & Forex trends

Annual asset verification for tooling at suppliers end

QMS / EMS: Provide necessary support for the implementation / sustenance of Quality,

Energy, Environment and Information Security Management Systems within the Commodity. Tooling activities Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning

Release of Tooling Procurement Order on approval of Fund Request 10%

Release of Procurement Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoices for cost changes.

Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools Change Management Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. ) 15 %

Do plausibility check , negotiate the change requests , and provide evaluation in the requested format.

Create & issue change request approval

Coordination and agreement with suppliers for timelines and implementation. Development activities Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility

Tracking and reporting the development activities

Follow-up meetings and supplier visit Required Skills Knowledge of powertrain components supplier base & material price trends, manufacturing processes, product technical information of powertrain components

Knowledge for procurement processes and systems, commercial-legal terms and their implication, QMS, EnMS.

Communication, Negotiation, Analytical & Assertiveness skills.

Reliability & flexibility

Knowledge of MS office

📌 Buyer- Powertrain (Pune)
🏢 ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Private
📍 Pune