Category Buyer Components / Lead Buyer Direct Materials

Cogs; Köln; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading automotive supplier in Cologne is seeking a Lead Buyer Direct Materials to manage commercial purchasing across multiple locations and implement cost-saving projects. The ideal candidate has experience in supplier evaluation and negotiation, aiming to enhance supplier performance. This position offers an engaging opportunity in a dynamic industry.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in commercial purchasing for production materials.
• Ability to manage cross-site responsibilities.
• Strong negotiation skills and supplier performance tracking.

Aufgaben

• Responsible for cross-site material group and commercial purchasing.
• Implement projects to save costs and improve supplier performance.
• Define supplier strategy and evaluate suppliers.

Kenntnisse

Supplier strategy definition

Cost-saving project implementation

Supplier evaluation

Annual price negotiation

KPI monitoring

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Job Title: Lead Buyer Direct Materials / Category Buyer Components

Location: Cologne, Germany

Industry: Automotive

Company Profile: Our client is a major automotive supplier with established relationships with all European OEMs. They develop and manufacture pressed parts, complex body assemblies and outer skin parts (class A). Their manufacturing capacities enable them to serve the lightweight design trend in the automotive industry.

Job Description

• Cross-site material group responsibility for production material
• Commercial purchasing responsibility for all plants in the north (Germany, Belgium) and east (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) regions
• Implementation of projects to save costs, rationalize and improve supplier performance
• Defining a supplier strategy for the group
• Decision on supplier evaluation
• Conducting annual price negotiations
• Management of the purchasing activities within the commodity together with the local antennas
• Definition and monitoring of KPI dashboard to track supplier and purchasing performance within each commodity

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