Senior Buyer - Supply Chain

Adient Slovakia s.r.o.

Place of work
Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Start date
By agreement
Wage (gross)
By agreement

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

For our Bratislava Business Center we are currently seeking to recruit a Senior Buyer - Supply Chain for purchasing department.

This position will be responsible for both the strategic and operational sourcing for defined sub-commodities within the supply chain commodity (logistics/transportation).

Your responsibilities:

Develop and implement commodity strategies for their defined commodity
Meet or exceed profit plan goals related to commodities including: cost savings, economics, supplier rationalization, working capital improvements and other key metrics
Support implementation of global commodity strategies
Lead, motivate, support and develop purchasing staff members relating to their commodity core team
Maintain and update weekly cost saving roadmaps
Support accurate and timely reporting of key measurables
Support implementation of standardize global activities
Leverage of purchases across all business units and global programs

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

* Minimum Bachelor Degree in Business, Supply Chain or related technical field
* Minimum 3-5 years of purchasing experience with automotive industry preferred
* In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
* Ability to recognize and respond to customer expectations with sense of urgency
* Ability to cooperate with people of different levels inside/ outside the company and to interact with team to reach team goals and business objectives
* Ability to gather information, analyze data, prepare and lead negotiations as well as deliver a recommendation
* Relevant SAP knowledge
* Up to 20% travel may be required

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Brief description of the company

Adient is the leading automotive seating supplier.

With more than 3,000 employees and five locations in Slovakia, the company is one of the key employers in Slovakia’s automotive industry.

Adient’s only business center worldwide is in Bratislava. Approximately 800 employees in Bratislava support the company’s business around the globe in finance, information technology, purchasing, sales, human resources, transport and logistics and project management.

In Trencin, Adient operates the biggest automotive technology center across Slovakia. More than 400 employees there develop a wide range of highly innovative products for the cars of tomorrow.

In Zilina, the company produces complete seat systems and automotive fabrics, in Lucenec foam components for seats as well as metal components for head restraints.

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 70 000 employees in 30 countries, Adient operates 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide, we produce and deliver automotive seating for all vehicle classes and all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design all the way to engineering and manufacturing – and into more than 20 million cars every year.

To learn more , please visit www.adient.com or www.adient.com/slovakia

Number of employees

1000 and more employees
ID: 3003927  Dátum zverejnenia: 7.4.2017  Pracovná ponuka je prevzatá z inej stránky alebo zdroja. Základná zložka mzdy (brutto) a ďalšie odmeny: By agreement