Description
Commodity Buyer
The ideal candidate will have strategic global commodity management experience of casting and machining commodities. He/she need to have experience in automotive industry. He /she need to have experience in working with cross-functional teams across various regions. He /She should have a successful track record of managing suppliers at all levels of management to achieve objectives, successfully managed and negotiated pricing globally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing Garrett global commodities of wheels in Turbocharger.
- Work continuously in defining and executing commodity/supplier strategies for all Garrett locations/regions to have good healthy supplier panel across all regions
- Leading purchasing market activities and work closely with internal stakeholders to support the business growth by identifying and developing suppliers and new technologies
- Planning and controlling AOP for the commodity in order to deliver on key goals like, achieving YOY productivity targets, improving working capital, efficient utilization of CAPEX ,etc
- Tracking and managing generic parts capacity on regular basis. Assess and plan addition of capacity by working closely with supply chain and regional procurement team ensuring no capacity issues.
- Work closely with product line sourcing manager for on time sourcing of platform parts at best cost
- Need to work with supplier for price negotiation, supplier agreements, General Terms and Conditions Agreement, consignment stock agreement and raw material and Fx indexation agreement.
- Support NPI team, supplier quality, supply chain and regional procurement team for supplier related issues (Comprehensive ownership of supplier performance)
- Work continuously with all stake holders like suppliers, engineering, quality, etc. to generate positive pipe line of VAVE ideas.
Basic Qualifications and skill sets:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- 5-8years experience in Strategic Sourcing, global commodity manageme