Comprador Sênior

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Continental is seeking a strategic procurement professional in São Paulo to interface with internal and external stakeholders and lead supplier strategy. The role emphasizes data analytics, cost reduction, and adoption of digital procurement tools to enhance efficiency and transparency.

You will steer supplier evaluations, negotiate terms, and ensure compliance with guidelines and ESG criteria across international projects, contributing to sustainable procurement excellence.

Qualifications

• UniversityDegree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Advanced English skills.
• Relevant professional purchasing experience in international environment.

Responsibilities

• Interface with ContiTech Purchasing Community and stakeholders.
• Develop and sustain supplier strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead negotiations and supplier evaluations to improve cost and value.
• Drive adoption of digital procurement tools and analytics.
• Ensure compliance with procurement guidelines and ESG criteria.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Supplier strategy

Data analytics

Digital procurement tools

Market analysis

Negotiation

Supplier relationship management

RFQ management

Cost reduction

Category management

Education

University degree

Advanced English

International project experience

Tools

e-sourcing platforms

AI-driven analytics

Purchasing systems

Job description

• Working Time: Full Time

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation.In 2024, Continentalgenerated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.

Guided by the vision of being the customer's first choice for material-driven solutions, the ContiTech group sector focuses on development competence and material expertise for products and systems made of rubber, plastics, metal, and fabrics. These can also be equipped with electronic components in order to optimize them functionally for individual services. ContiTech's industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction, and surfaces. In addition, ContiTech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.

• Act as interface and represent the interests of ContiTech and the Purchasing Community towards all internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Engineering, Plants, Suppliers)
• Understands the business and purchasing strategy to derive actions for own managed category
• Guide, support and train local and central stakeholders to execute with the right tools, methods and processes

• Develop and sustain (supplier) strategy for respective integrated category in alignment with all relevant stakeholders and supervisors (e.g. Engineering, Regions, Plants) and in compliance with all relevant purchasing processes, guidelines and procedures
• Understand multiple data management systems and manage data analytics for the respective integrated category (identify spend profile and concentration, estimate / predict demand etc)
• Turns strategy into concrete actions and tangible goals as well as defining, monitoring and reporting relevant KPIs to track progress where applicable
• Ensures stakeholder satisfaction through transparent and early communication / involvement
• Drive the adoption of digital tools and procurement technologies (e.g., e-sourcing platforms, AI-driven analytics) to enhance efficiency, transparency, and decision-making.

• Analysis of the global supplier market and conduction of benchmark analysis to derive actions for the global supplier portfolio
• Implements and maintains sustainable supplier relationship and conducts Strategic Supplier Meetings to deploy the global integrated category strategy
• Responsible for steering the annual supplier evaluation and derives development programs where needed
• Performs annual and regular negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation for respective integrated category, actively drives improvement or Total Cost of Ownership programs with suppliers
• Initiates the New Supplier Introduction Process
• Approval and negotiations of shopping carts and Purchase Requisitions
• Creates and sends Purchase Orders to the suppliers ( Purchase to Pay process ).
• Realization of saving opportunities by bundling operational demands, substitution of suppliers, negotiations of payment-/delivery terms and warranty extensions
• Clearance of invoice deviations in case of price difference;
• Management of the RfQ-Process for demands/shopping carts, offer evaluation, creation of offer comparison, including the awarding of suppliers;
• Identification and support on the creation of electronic catalogs to reduce manual processing requirements, while promoting the usage of existing ones;
• Different reporting of the repetitive bought items in scope of increase automation.
• Steering and Monitoring the automated replenishment process for coded materials;-
• Support for specialists in clarifying differences in the region within the catalogs used
• Ensure necessary transparency and documentation of supplier decisions according to compliance guidelines (e.g. Sourcing Decision Sheet).
• Detect new suppliers and optimize number of existing suppliers.
• Sustainable reduction of purchasing prices in consideration of functional and quality aspects.
• Escalation Management/Problem Solving by executing approaches with the aim to secure local objectives;
• Offer support for market surveys.
• Implement measures and support the Category and Sourcing team in reaching team's common targets.
• Ensure Compliance with Business Partner Code of Conduct, ContiTech Ethics and Values and all Corporate Guidelines;

• Autonomous preparation, conduction and finalization of international negotiations for own integrated category including supplier decisions compliant with the relevant internal policies (incl. audit-compliant documentation) with the target to achieve the defined goals and a special focus on highest value creation (e.g. with support of Terms & Conditions (TCO) analysis)
• Drives make or buy scenarios, optimizes bundling effects and initiates Value-Engineering projects
• Conduct complaint and claim negotiations with special strategic interest which can’t be performed independently by the local units
• Effective management of contract lifecycle for both existing and new contract agreements - compliant with the relevant internal policies (incl. audit-compliant documentation) - in order to ensure performance, financial and operational success
• Lead or participate in projects with relevance for owned category or within the purchasing organization

• Integrate sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) criteria into sourcing decisions, supplier selection, and performance evaluation.

• University Degree or other equivalent degree;
• Advanced English skills;
• Relevant professional experience in Purchasing or related functions within an international environment.
• Advanced experience working in projects with an international scope / environment
• Experience in conducting negotiations with a multi regional responsibility
• Knowledge on purchasing processes (and/or relevant to the field) description and optimization