Description
Responsibilities:
- Manage buyers, ensure staff availability and grow the competence within the designated scope (Commodity/Panels), improve engagement of the team
- Be responsible for supplier relationship management:
- Lead supplier performance reviews and foster improvement of suppliers' performance (e.g. supplier development)
- Manage designated suppliers' contract, accountable for compliance
- Own capacity for his commodity and supports RCCP process, validate corrective action plan and negotiate capacity increases
- Support of major operational issues with GBE Manager (according to escalation process)
- Responsible for the definition and execution of the strategy panels, and own AOP and STRAP results for his commodity
- Ensure execution of AOP objectives on the sub-commodity:
- Delivers productivity for his sub-commodity (Negotiation, VE, Resourcing…) in alignment with the Global Commodity he belongs to.
- Generate & consolidate VAVE – Resourcing ideas, collect ideas from suppliers. Build Business cases when required
- Ensure accurate MATEX performance reporting
- Animate the extended commodity network (including GBE Buyers) to ensure AOP objectives are met
- Define corrective action plans in case of deviation from AOP objectives
- Define yearly negotiations objectives, conduct negotiations with suppliers or assign supplier accountabilities to GBE/Commodity Buyer
- Validate negotiations results and conclude commercial agreements with suppliers
- Optimize cash, payment terms and consignment stock Contractual obligations, secure planning and execution of Capex.
- Own sub-commodity strategy
- Interface with rest of organizations to adequately develop commodity strategy and serve business needs (GBE, engineering, sales, manufacturing, quality):
- Build Supplier Panel for the GBE operational & strategic requirements (project & production) and refresh them on a yearly basis
- Contribute to commercial & industrial market expertise