Friction category lead buyer Europe
Hitachi Vantara Corporation
Location
Drancy, Seine Saint Denis | France
Job description
Description
Market intelligence and budget preparation :
- Collect European, category, supplier specific information
- Propose strategic path to Global Category Manager
- Provide economic insights and trends on European market
- Propose new ideas of savings or cost avoidance
- Active participation in budget preparation and achievement
Perform sourcing and ensure commercial supplier performance
- Send RFQ to suppliers
- Prepare cost estimation (for BU during acquisition phase), including request of “should cost” to Cost Engineering team
- Negotiate and formalize contracts
- Organize and lead the sourcing decisions in her/his area of responsibility based on the category strategy and Business Units expectations
- Negotiate annually or on spot with suppliers (prices, payment terms, tooling, commercial clauses, …)
- Report KPI by part number and supplier
Manage supplier base
- Maintain and develop contacts with suppliers
- Develop supplier panel
- Ensure commercial supplier performance and compliance
- Contribute to projects to optimize supplier performance
Support plants
- Support Business Unit plants in any operational discussions with suppliers in case of escalation requested (quality, delivery, …)
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