Buyer Business Unit

For our Business Center in Bratislava (Slovakia) we are currently seeking to recruit a

Buyer Business Unit

Your responsibilities:

• Support all program purchasing activities within the given Customer Business Unit while ensuring compliance with overall company objectives , strategies and procedures.
• Coordination of Program Purchasing activities over specific customer business unit to ensure excellent product launches
• Ensure smooth project launches
• Control and approval of all Program Purchasing activities specified in Program launch system and decisions in line with customer demands and commodity strategies
• Guarantee financial control over complex, modular programs from phase 0-5 and over lifetime
• Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all required goods, materials, equipment’s and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets
• Guarantee compliance with BOS, PLUS and POS procedures
• Initiate and support of proper Make or Buy decisions
• Initiate and support. VA / VE activities, profitability workshops, CI events,
• Lead supplier`s onsite audits
• Initiate and support cost optimization/saving projects,
• Program team member for a specific number of programs
• Guarantee compliance with all Adient procedures
• Manage the Suppliers within the given programs (Request for Quotes RFQ, price comparisons, supplier sourcing, change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolutions on quality and log level, etc.)

Your qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, or Supply Chain or related technical field
• 2-5 years of purchasing experience in industry, automotive or commodity related, operational and strategic involvement
• In depth knowledge of the procurement process
• In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
• Ability to recognize and respond to 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
• Controlling and cost analysis knowlege
• Fluent English skills mandatory
• Relevant SAP knowledge; very good Excel skills
• Up to 25% travel may be required, driving license B

We offer you:

• Base gross monthly salary starting from 1750 EUR. Our salary is fair and competitive and can be higher than the starting minimum written in the advert
• 13th salary
• Language courses
• Meal vouchers (fully paid by employer)
• Flexible working time, home offices, extra holiday entitlement
• Wedding allowance, childbirth allowance, jubilee allowance, housing allowance
• Referral bonus
• Health, safety and ergonomics events, training sessions
• Active life with colleagues full of various sports activities (swimming, yoga, tennis, volleyball etc.)
• Massage at workplace, modern relax areas and game room
• Coffee/Tea/Fruit on the workplace

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 Mrs. Isabell Grabowski on +49 2174 65-1877.