Job Summary

Position Name: Buyer Specialist

Purpose of the Position

- 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.

Role Overview

- Buyer Specialist will be responsible for sourcing production materials for strategic workgroups, including cost estimation, capacity planning, supplier development, change management, contract management, purchase order release, tooling and component procurement, part development, and tracking.
- The position will also support and guide buyers on business-related topics and ensure that procurement activities are executed in accordance with Volkswagen Group purchasing processes and standards.

Responsibilities

- Series activities
- Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective 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 (RD, 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 RD 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, RD, 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 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.

- Development activities

- Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility
- Tracking and reporting the development activities
- Follow-up meetings and supplier visits

Key Skills and Competencies

- Knowledge of supplier base, material price trends, manufacturing processes, product technical information.
- Knowledge for purchasing processes and systems, commercial-legal terms and their implication, QMS, EnMS.
- Communication, Negotiation, Analytical, Assertiveness skills
- Knowledge of MS Office

Location

Location: Pune, Maharashtra Function: Procurement / Strategic Sourcing

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