Senior Divisional Buyer/ Buying Category Lead (European scope)
Location: home office or hybrid (małopolskie)
Ref. PL22-R701-S01
Our Client is a leading global supplier of products for hydronic distribution systems which deliver optimal and energy efficient heating and cooling systems to the residential and commercial building sectors.
- The purpose of the role is to deliver cost/quality/delivery improvements throughout:
- managing assigned suppliers and product categories
- optimization projects – finding opportunities, defining project plans, and running execution
Key Responsibilities:
In this newly set role you will be reporting to Divisional Procurement Manager for 3rd Party Products and you will be mainly responsible for:
- defining and implementing a strategy for a given portfolio of products (valves, actuators) and vendors
- driving sourcing projects for 4 plants in Europe
- working with cross functional team(Procurement, R&D, Quality, Sales) to identify improvement opportunities
- driving improvement projects 1) best country sourcing 2) supplier rationalization 3) lead time reduction 4) stock improvement 5) payment terms improvement 6) quality improvement.
- acting as a procurement lead (coordination, sourcing) for new product development projects
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of working experience across engineering, manufacturing, procurement
- 5 years of working experience in strategic procurement (Category/Commodity Management, holding previously roles such as Category or Commodity Buyer in direct materials) within international organization
- Previous experience in automotive, complex industrial or electronics industry
- Experience in cost analysis / cost breakdowns / TCO approach
- Fluent English, German a plus
- Analytical skills accompanied by a good knowledge of Ms Excel and Ms PowerPoint
- High degree of integrity and transparency
- Ability to work within the organization at all levels
- High level of drive and personal commitment, work as an owner
- Adaptability and resilience
Why apply?
A very interesting position for senior procurement expert to join a regional procurement department. They present very employee friendly organization culture praising diversity, team work/ companionship and honest feedback.
If you wish to apply, than send us your CV in English to: agnieszkapiatkowska@e-bigfish.com
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