Country Buyer

As country buyer, your mission will be to support plants by managing mandated suppliers, detecting supply chain risks and implementing countermeasures to prevent disruption of supply. Your main activities will be:

• Responsibility for suppliers performance in terms of quality, cost and timing within country perimeter
• Manage supply stop, contract termination, insourcing and outsourcing
• Secure supplier payment process, invoice approval and correct payment of suppliers
• Identify cost savings opportunities, promote technical savings proposed by suppliers and implement these with suppliers and plants, benchmark activities
• Prepare Pre-RfQ & Sourcing in serial production phase, prepare and implement nomination letters
• Manage and negotiate requests for price increases (if less than 20k€ per year)
• Lead the problem solving process (management of operative supply bottlenecks, managing suppliers' tool damages and repair, managing supplier insolvencies)
• Follow up and report the suppliers operative performance, define and implement improvement plans
• Ensure proper handover of purchasing responsibilities from program to serial phase for each project
• Implement engineering changes or supplier relocation in serial life

• Interesting bonus system
• Career development - opportunities to grow within division or group level
• Contribution to third pillar (pension saving)
• Professional training, language courses
• Social events, sport activities
• Referral bonus, Improvement idea reward, working anniversary bonus
• Contributions from Social fund, contribution to life events (wedding, birth of the child)
• Maximum pocket money for business trips abroad
• Meals in canteen for 0.80-1.00€;
• Salary review on yearly base
• Possibility to work from home
• Flexible working hours
• Additional relax day
• Coffee for free, Fruit day each Monday

We expect the CV in English language.