Position Description This position is responsible for sourcing of production materials for strategic workgroups , cost estimation , capacity planning, evaluate change request , release of contracts , releasing Purchase orders (Tooling & Components) , part development and tracking , support and guide the buyers in business topics. Ensure execution of activities as per group purchasing processes.

Primary Responsibilities Series activities

- Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible
- parts , alignment with group for allocation of common parts including imported child parts
- Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure
- Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan.
- Annual purchase order release / contracts
- Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D; , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)
- Scout for current potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
- Explore new technologies, alternate raw material , Value Engg. proposals for cost reduction
- (FMK , Q –gene , P-gene , 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.
- Representation in material group meetings for regional sourcing strategies for high value
- parts

Sourcing Activities

- Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list
- 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.
- Facilitate and ensure technical review , QTR , quality and R&D; audits
- Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals
- Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing
- Prepare sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility , alignment with group buyers.
- Present in Sourcing Committees ( ISC/ SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB )
- In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER
- (Target approval forum )
- Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA
- Get Sign off of Purchasing Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers.
- Project handover documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and CFT (QA , R&D; , logistics , SRM)
- Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3) Tooling activities
- Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning
- Release of Tooling Purchasing Order on approval of Fund Request
- Release of Purchasing Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoice for cost changes.
- Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools

Change Management

- Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. )
- 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 20%
- Follow-up meetings and supplier visits

Educational qualifications preferred: Engineering - Bachelor's Degree or other

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