Senior Buyer - Mechanisms

Renault Group; Chennai District; Vor Ort; INR 2.500.000 - 4.500.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Renault Group is seeking a Lead Buyer who will oversee complex supplier networks, negotiate for sustainable supply of parts and services, and ensure continuous improvement in cost, quality and delivery. The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams and coaching junior buyers within the Purchasing Department.

The successful candidate will drive the Project Purchasing and Life Series processes, manage strategic supplier panels, and support the company’s transformation through new digital

Qualifikationen

• Advanced negotiation capacity.
• Ability to influence and persuade at senior levels.
• Economic analysis and cost optimization skills.
• Knowledge of purchasing processes and digital tools.

Aufgaben

• Lead supplier selection from end to end and coordinate the supplier axis.
• Negotiate changes to improve price, quality, logistics and innovation.
• Monitor contract lifecycle from development to end of life and manage supplier relations.
• Coach and support buyers; drive procurement digital transformation.

Kenntnisse

Negotiation

Influence

Economic analysis

Legal knowledge

Purchasing processes

Digital tools

Crisis management

Tools

Procurement tools

Digital procurement tools

Jobbeschreibung

Nature and scope of responsibilities exercised

Under the responsibility of the Purchasing Department Head/ Procurement Director, the Lead Buyer intervenes at the heart of the Renault/Supplier network. In his/her area of responsibility, identified as complex and challenging, he/she enjoys increased autonomy to manage the supplier relationship from end to end, negotiate and ensure the supply of parts/services in a sustainable and efficient manner. He/she is the referent of the Project Purchasing and Life Series processes in the team and provides support and coaching to buyers. He/she is in charge of the complete relationship with a supplier or a strategic panel and coordinates the activities of this supplier axis in transversal.

Significant activities

The Lead buyer is responsible for the performance of their own scope within their technology, by negotiating changes in a process of continuous improvement (price, quality, logistics, innovation...), respecting the different milestones for client projects, while ensuring the social and environmental responsibility of the company. He/she is responsible for monitoring the contract throughout the project’s life (development, serial life and end of life) and the supplier relationship from end to end by being the key interlocutor with the suppliers. He/she is responsible for coordinating the activities of his/her supplier axis or a strategic panel in transverse (potentially beyond his/her convenience). Based on an expression of need, in connection with the strategy defined by the Purchasing Department Head / Procurement Director on a complex and challenging scope, the Lead Buyer leads the complete supplier selection process with stakeholders, until the proposal and presentation of the sourcing to the top management. In case of dispute or drift in the implementation of the contract, or in situations of supply crisis, quality... from his perimeter, he/she is a key player in the implementation of solutions with the supplier and the internal and external departments involved. He is experienced and masters the Project & Serial Life Purchasing processes in the automotive industry and comes to support and coach the team’s Buyers when necessary. He is an ambassador of the transformation and digitalization of the company: he deploys with his colleagues, the new Procurement processes and digital tools. He gives his feedback and captures the possible improvements.

Skills required for the performance of the job

Know-how: advanced negotiation capacity, ability to influence and persuade, technical understanding of its scope, economic analysis capacity, legal knowledge, mastery of purchasing processes and digital tools, litigation monitoring, crisis management. Interpersonal skills: openness and curiosity, adaptability, resilience capacity, advanced multi-level communication, be a creative force, proactivity, pugnacity. Strategic analysis ability, ability to propose solutions / crisis resolution, oral presentations at the executive level, professional English required.

Job Family

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