YOUR TASK
1 Analyze the purchasing market taking into account the needs and requirements of the relevant Product Centers and Hella Companies. Prepare and update supplier matrix, prepare qualified supplier evaluations and build up alternative suppliers to meet or overachieve purchasing targets in the dimensions of “Cost”, “Time” and “Quality” in alignment with the responsible party from Product Centers and Business Division
2 Prepare and implement a purchasing strategy for highly complex material groups with defined strategy teams. Establish a standard and optimized supplier basis worldwide to realize synergies by bundling purchasing volume, concentrating on efficient suppliers and optimizing the global process chain
3 Negotiate supplier frame contracts, define sourcing concept and realize sourcing activities incl. but not limited to sending RfQs, negotiating and nominating suppliers for tools and components within the material group (new projects, lifetime extensions, change management, etc.)
4 Define material cost changes (budgeting) in agreement with the Hella Companies and superior in order to create an aligned planning basis and to achieve business division objectives
5 Generate measures and support the measure generation for commercial and technical optimization of components or purchase volume to reduce costs and improve quality and security of supply
6 Analyse suppliers in cooperation with the suppliers, identify opportunities for improvement and derive corresponding qualification measures, involving internal organizational units, in order to optimize the process chain between the supplier and Hella
7 Consolidate the annual material requirements within a material group and steer central negotiations
with suppliers to achieve optimum purchasing prices through bundling
8 Initiate talks, carry out negotiations and prepare contracts to reduce costs, as well as to optimize procedures between supplier and Hella and to enforce Hella interests
considering schedules, quality, quantity and delivery conditions
9 Create standardized international purchasing processes, methods and tools within the global network and strengthen purchasing power towards suppliers world-wide
10 Aligning tasks and decisions with supervisors if necessary
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
1. Bachelor or above, major in engineering, Mechanical related major is preferred.
2. With 5-year or above working experience in Commodity Group Purchasing, Very good at high level negotiation skill and negotiation strategy, rich experience to cooperate with internal and external stake holder.
3. Familiar with a few kinds of material group manufacture process and cost structure
4. Strong execution ability/ Logic analysis /Quick learner
5. Good written and spoken English