Purchasing Commodity Manager (m/f)

JOB DESCRIPTION

For our our Business Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia we are currently seeking to recruit a

Purchasing Commodity Manager (m/f)

Objective of function:

• To be responsible for the assigned region strategic sourcing for a defined commodity / sub commodity such as Seat Structures & Mechanisms, e.g. tubes, coating, stampings, roll forming, lead screw and spindle drives

• Design the perfect sourcing footprint for the commodity / sub commodity, define the roadmaps and make it happen
  

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all Adient plants with the required goods, materials, equipment’s and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets.

• Design optimal supply base

• Control and approval of all strategic advanced and operational purchasing activities and decisions for production within the commodity organization

• Coordination of purchasing targets with the managing board and the related departments

• Lead, motivate, support and develop purchasing staff members relating to the Commodity core teams

• Development, coordination and steering of purchasing strategies for all plants that consume commodities

• Control and improve purchasing controlling and cost analysis to guarantee savings and cost tracking

• Support of proper Make or Buy decisions

• Support efforts concerning supply base rationalization and supplier development

• Guarantee compliance with BOS, PLUS, POS and SOX procedures

• Leverage of purchases across all BU’s

• Structuring and bundling of global and regional aspects within the Commodity organization

• Improvement of program-profitability as well as of all purchasing activities for the purposes of continuous improvement through global sourcing, long/life-time reductions etc.

• Global- and cost-oriented purchasing of goods parts or services for the production within the Commodity Organization. Strategic management of the commodity / sub commodity

• Co-ordination of all advanced and operational Purchasing activities within the Commodity organization starting from phase 0 and over lifetime.

• Meet or exceed profit plan goals related commodities: Cost Savings, economics, quality, supplier rationalization, MBBP % content and other agreed objectives

• Budget-/ cost center responsibility/ project sum: $100-150 million
  

Your qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent technical education
• Extensive experience within automotive or commodity related industry
• Several years’ experience as Purchasing Manager Direct Purchasing
• Operational and strategic involvement
• Excellent communication skills
  

Our conditions :

• Our salary is fair and competitive and can be few times higher than the starting minimum 2500EUR
• 13th salary
• Meal vouchers fully paid by employer
• Language courses
• Flexible working time, extra holiday entitlement, wedding allowance, child birth allowance, jubilee allowance, relocation allowance
• Health, safety and ergonomics events, training sessions
• Active life with colleagues full of various sports activities (swimming, yoga, tennis, volleyball etc.)
• Multisport card
• Massage at workplace, modern relax areas and game room
  

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions please do not hesitate to contact Daniel Drabik on +421 257 271 020.

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