Position Name: EV Buyer

Purpose of the position:

This position is responsible for a market scouting of electric vehicle components for Genuine parts & Accessories & supplier portfolio of the EV components /child parts & accessories , costs evaluations, sourcing and supplier nomination process for the EV 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. Price settlement of serviceable child parts. Price settlement for Revisions after End of Production.

Skills required

Critical, Technical & Behavioral Skills (As required for the role)

- Knowledge of EV supplier base & material price trends, manufacturing processes, product technical information of EV components/Accessories
- 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

Role & responsibilities

Pre-Series activities for Genuine parts & Accessories

- Explore new technologies of electric vehicles and a connection to SAVWIPL projects and evaluate potentials
- Monitor raw material of EV components and track it
- Scout for current potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
- Evaluate and track costs of EV components/Accessories and agree on real cost of the project Business case
- Sourcing Activities for Genuine parts & Accessorie
- Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list for low volume challenges
- Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform
- Gather inputs for releasing enquiry, Create and Release RFQs in system-GS RFQ




- Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBDs )
- Request for Targets for part price and investments for Business case with Aftersales
- 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)
- Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA. Inform techno-commercial to Accessories Team for business case& Handover parts for development
- No TER. Work on various investigation special projects for Accessories to provide evaluations
- Get Sign off of Procurement Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers & related other Aftersales agreements
- Support FS Team for Project Handover Documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and Accessories CFT (QA , R&D; , logistics , SRM) in case of any escalations
- Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in TEVON

Series activities for Genuine parts & Accessories

- Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts




- ATB/Post EOP/Accessories price settlements/claim settlements/Force-majeure. Child parts settlement for Genuine parts in alignment with Series Buyer
- 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 aftersales/Accessories escalations topics (R&D; , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)
- Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
- Explore new 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
- 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. )
- 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 along with Accessories Team responsible for Development

Development activities

- Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for Genuine/child/ Accessories parts under direct purchase responsibility

📌 Buyer - EV (Pune)
🏢 Skoda Auto Volkswagen India
📍 Pune