Project Management Purchasing (PMP)

• Ensure that the Purchasing Targets for defined technically complex and international projects in the dimensions of “Cost”, “Time” and “Quality” are being achieved or overachieved by steering and managing any kind of project specific purchasing activities for defined projects incl. projects with multiple development and/or production locations and incl. project related SQA activities

• Minimizing the total costs (Total Cost of Ownership) by an early integration of the Project Manager in the product engineering process (PEP). Optimizing development timeline by an early integration of approved suppliers in the simultaneous engineering process

• Challenging the technical solutions for purchased parts in terms of cost efficiency and challenge the project team in order to ensure and overachieve targeted costs. Supporting the identification and achievement of cost potentials resulting from Design-to-Cost (DtC). For that, an understanding of the product engineering process and the material manufacturing process is needed

• Driving pre-series purchasing processes for specific Hella products, challenging the project team to keep project milestone important for the execution of purchasing tasks on-time, e.g. Concept/System Release
• and preparation of RfQ documents. Procuring prototypes if necessary and ensuring pre-series material procurement (C-Sample process)

• Transfer of responsibly for material procurement to the logistics department of the Hella production plant after released Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

• Create standardized international purchasing processes, methods and tools within the global network and strengthen purchasing power towards suppliers world-wide

• Manage intercultural and trustful relationships by creating and adding value from international project team setups through utilizing the cultural diversity in the project

• Obtain release and manage escalations of any kind of purchasing activities within the regional Product Center organization

• Act as first contact window and escalation level for suppliers within series production and for product center overarching issues. Providing relevant information to Material Group Management and Project Management Business Partners in order to derive appropriate actions

• Escalation to Material Group Managers as well as Business Partner according to valid escalation concepts. Align tasks and decisions with superiors if necessary

The system will be presented on personal interview.