Platform Purchasing Leader

Valeo India Private Limited; Chennai; Vor Ort; INR 1.200.000 - 2.400.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Valeo is seeking a Project Buyer in India to lead global RFIs/RFQs, negotiate LTAs, and convert terms into solid contract documentation. You will define sourcing strategies, run e-auctions, and coordinate with project teams to ensure alignment with platform and customer needs.

You will monitor capacity, leverage purchasing tools like PuMa, and drive cross-functional productivity measures to optimize costs. This role requires collaboration across clusters and on-site execution with regional teams.

Aufgaben

• Leads and coordinates RFIs/RFQs worldwide
• Negotiates global price matrices, LTAs, and converts to contract documentation
• Defines sourcing slots and negotiation strategies, executes e-auctions for component awarding
• Represents Purchasing in committees and aligns with platform and customer projects
• Defines cost targets in line with platform scope and regional constraints
• Monitors capacity risks in line with platform ramp-up
• Ensures use of Valeo purchasing tools (e.g., PuMa) across projects
• Tracks part qualification with project team, SQA, and suppliers to meet milestones
• Implements cross-functional productivity measures (Design-to-Cost, ESI, bundling)
• Tracks cost roadmaps and KPIs to achieve targets
• Handovers to series projects and buyers, supports productivity measures
• Coordinates purchasing across clusters and platforms for synergies
• Performs site-specific purchasing tasks with Platform Purchasing/ Site Purchasing Directors
• Conducts internal and external audits on purchasing activities

Jobbeschreibung

Platform Purchasing Leader Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Responsibilities

• Leads and coordinates the RFI’s / RFQ’s worldwide
• Responsible for leading platform committees and independently negotiating global price matrices, Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), and business links, as well as converting them into valid contract documentation
• Defines sourcing slots and negotiation strategies, and independently executes e-auctions for component awarding
• Represents Purchasing in various committees and ensures that purchasing strategies and decisions are integrated and implemented within the platform and customer projects
• Defines cost targets according to the full platform scope (volume, costs, etc.) in alignment with segment strategies and regional constraints
• Monitors and anticipates capacity risks in line with the platform volume ramp-up
• Ensures the correct use and application of Valeo purchasing tools (e.g., PuMa) within the scope of work and across the project team
• Coordinates and tracks the part qualification process in close alignment with the project team, SQA network, and suppliers to ensure project milestones are met
• Identifies, collects, and implements cross-functional productivity measures for platform components globally by leveraging purchasing strategies such as Design-to-Cost, Early Supplier Involvement (ESI), and bundling opportunities
• Independently tracks and monitors cost roadmaps and all platform purchasing KPIs to ensure platform and project targets are achieved
• Ensures a smooth handover to series projects and series buyers, including pending productivity measures to be implemented (PTBV)
• Coordinates and drives purchasing activities across different clusters and platforms to identify and leverage synergy and standardization potential
• Takes on site-specific purchasing tasks in agreement with the Platform Purchasing Director or Site Purchasing Director, such as preparing and conducting internal and external audits

Job Details

• Job: Project Buyer
• Organization: Region Purchasing
• Schedule: Full time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Job Type: Permanent contract
• Job Posting Date: 2026-10-12

Join Us!

Being part of our team, you will join:

• one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
• a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com