Overall responsibilities and duties: The Buyer is responsible to develop and manage the supplier panel for a specific commodity segment, selecting suppliers according to the group criteria, apply purchasing policy, and develop suppliers to continuously improve QCD performance. The Buyer identifies and leads ideas and initiatives in order to improve the global productivity and achieve or surpass financial objectives.

Additional responsibilities of the buyer are:

• Improve financial performance of the Division through supplier negotiations, resourcing and productivity actions • Monitor supplier Quality, Cost and Delivery performance and challenge supplier when supplier is falling short of targets

The main responsibilities of the role are:

• Develop and execute segment Commodity Strategy;

• Define and lead activities aligned to Commodity Strategy

• Responsible for delivering purchasing budget, updating forecast, reporting monthly savings

• Support Program Buyers with sourcing of new segments and supplier Panel definition

• Pursue optimally economical costs for goods/services required, in conjunction with obtaining continual long term agreement savings opportunities

• Performs continual review and evaluation of the current supply base and also new potential suppliers through cross-functional supplier audits/visits based on the criteria provided by Group • Facilitate continuous improvement activities with the supply base to support VA/VE savings opportunities

• ECR/EO activity – obtain quotes for engineering changes, understand and challenge supply base assumptions

• Lead supplier VA/VE activity and participate in lean manufacturing workshops

• Progress savings from inception through to implementation





• Conduct management meetings to review and improve supplier performance 5ac XjzUk

• Manage and understand supplier´s tool life and monitor/secure capacity INTERNAL and PARTNERS

• Other duties and specific projects as identified to support commercial targets and supplier optimization

• Understand all cost break-downs and challenge supply base accordingly to ensure cost is optimized

• Have the ability to fully understand cost models and be able to provide input towards generating a cost model. 5ac XjzUk INTERNAL and PARTNERS

Minimum education level: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or related field.

Experience:

• 12 years in automotive industry

• SAP experience (preferred) Skills & Competencies:

• Must have very good Excel and Word skills

• Strong communication skills

• Able to accommodate ~15% - 20% travel (domestic & international)

• Commitment to the highest ethical standards and willingness to adhere to the Code of Ethics and Code of Management

• Team Player

. Skillset Required: Supplier management, Purchasing policy, Supplier development, Financial performance improvement, Supplier negotiations, Resourcing, Productivity actions, Supplier Quality monitoring, Cost monitoring, Delivery performance monitoring, Commodity Strategy development, Budget delivery, Forecast updating, Savings reporting, Sourcing, Supplier panel definition, Cost optimization, Supplier audits, Cross-functional supplier audits, Continuous improvement, VA/VE savings, Engineering change quotes, Supplier assumption challenge, Lean manufacturing workshops, Savings implementation, Management meetings, Supplier performance review, Tool life management, Capacity monitoring, Cost breakdown analysis, Cost model understanding, SAP, Excel, Word, Solid communication, Travel accommodation, Ethical standards adherence, Team Player

📌 Commodity Leader- Stamping (India)
🏢 Antal International
📍 India