Position description:

This position is responsible for a market scouting ofPowertrain components & supplier portfolio of the Powertrain components,costs evaluations, sourcing and supplier nomination process for the powertraincomponents. Next ensure and manage procurement activities related to capacityplanning, evaluating change requests, issuing contracts, issuing orders (toolsand components), tracking parts. Ensuring activities are carried out inaccordance with the VW group's procurement processes.

Check and negotiate costoptimization during an entire project lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

Pre series Activities

Explore new technologies of electric vehiclesand a connection to SAVWIPL projects and evaluate potentials.

Monitor raw material of powertrain componentsand track it

Scout for new potential suppliers and bring themon board with handholding

Evaluate and track costs of powertrain componentsand agree on real cost of the project (VSI)

Sourcing Activities

Supplier identification and preparation ofbidder list 20 %

Registration of suppliers on Group purchaseplatform

Gather inputs for releasing enquiry, Create andRelease RFQs in system

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

Request for Targets for part price andinvestments.

Do a plausibility check of offers based on costestimation

Price negotiation and get final offers fromsuppliers.

Preparation of cost comparison based on agreedtechnical proposals

Gather Market information / Group benchmarkoverview for the parts under sourcing

Support a preparing of sourcing presentationswith 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 ApprovalCommittee)

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

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

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

Request for vendor code generation and enternomination and sample availability dates in

TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3)

Series Activity

Ensure capacity planning in order to achieveproduction targets for respective responsible parts

Series price settlements / claim settlements /Force-majeure

Yearly price negotiations to achieve costreduction 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 current potential suppliers and bring themon board with handholding

Explore new technologies, alternate rawmaterial, Value Engineering, proposals for cost reduction (SCOP and other similarcommittees & complexity reduction )

Do global sourcing and evaluate savingpotentials for material cost reduction

Monitor raw material & Forex trends





Annual asset verification for tooling atsuppliers end

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

Energy, Environment and Information SecurityManagement Systems within the Commodity.

Tooling activities

Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasingTooling Order as per budget planning

Release of Tooling Procurement Order on approvalof Fund Request 10%

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

Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalizationof tools

Change Management

Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO,AeA, MY Point etc. ) 15 %

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

Create & issue change request approval

Coordination and agreement with suppliers fortimelines and implementation.

Developmentactivities

Commitment meeting and timeline agreements forparts under direct purchase responsibility

Tracking and reporting the developmentactivities

Follow-up meetings and supplier visit

Required Skills:

Knowledge of powertrain components supplier base& material price trends, manufacturing processes, product technical information ofpowertrain 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

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📌 Buyer- Powertrain (Pune)
🏢 Skoda
📍 Pune