Description de l'entreprise et du poste :

We are recruiting a Head of Purchasing Indirect Material and Services for our leading client in the industrial sector

Short description:

• Ensures smooth and efficient operation of the local (country or region) purchasing organization according to local and global standards, manages and leads the team of national Category Buyers and / or Procurement Clerks / Specialists

Key Tasks:

• Manages and leads the team of national Category Buyers and / or Procurement Clerks/Specialists
• Monitoring continuously the economical, technical & social market trends for the assigned categories and suppliers (market surveys)
• Support and perform internal and external analysis/benchmarks of respective categories, and organize research on the market for alternatives in terms of potential suppliers, prices, products or services
• Develope an overall country purchasing strategy in coordination with national category buyers and central category managers
• Bundle the demand and the human resources efforts in the team in order to ensure best conditions with suppliers in terms of cost, cashflow and performance
• Supports the implemention of a worldwide purchasing strategy of the global category strategies
• Support and perform complex national RfQs negotiations according to strategic framework based on purchase request and tender books of internal requestor
• Support and ensure a compliant supplier selection / release process driving the necesary controlls in place, as well as preparation for the awarding / decision process according to defined tresholds
• Releases purchase orders according to the tresholds defined
• Support and conduct relevant supplier contracts of high complexity (e.g. Framework Agreement, Service Level Agreement, Quality Assurance Agreement) in close collaboration with legal dept. and respective country plants
• Validates and presents to administrators of the company the contracts that need to be signed
• Support and ensure the publication of the negotiation results within the organization and purchasing network
• Identify and initiate savings potential and improvement-opportunities (e.g. VA/VE and localization ideas)
• Support and perform regular coordination / review meetings with the relevant internal stakeholders to increase customer satisfaction
• Verify monthly puchasing reporting and track it in the respective tools
• Support and executes and implements solutions for supplier escalations, especially for Delivery delays and allocations to safeguard indirect material and services supplies
• Support and recovers non-conformance and non-performance costs from suppliers (in escalation)
• Support and pushing suppliers to provide all required information for our business upon due time (e.g. waranty issues, potential delivery delays).
• Support and monitore suppliers contract adherence and validity continuously together with the internal contract requestor and implementing measures to solve deviations.
• Supports preparation addendums to update contracts according to newly negotiated conditions.
• Support and meet strategic (national) suppliers regularly to exchange information and tackling actual topics, including regular on-site visits at the suppliers (technology know-how)
• Document and archive all data in a process conform and auditable way
• Uses purchasing tools according to purchasing processes to be applied
• Initiates and supports continuous improvement measures
• Support other Purchasing organizations within aligned Categories if requested
• Adhere all regulations and guidelines of the Company and specifically for purchasing tasks

Profil :

Work experience in area: 10 years

• Communication
• Social & intercultural sensitivity
• Change management
• Target & result orientation
• Motivation & resilience
• Self-organization
• Conflict management
• Teamwork

Ce que nous vous offrons :

• Contrat CDI
• Salaire Motivant