Senior Production Buyer

SUMMARY:
Our client in the automotive sector seeks to employ a Senior Production Buyer to join their Purchasing department. Position based in Uitenhage.

POSITION INFO:

Requirements:

- Degree or Higher-Level Diploma in Business-related studies of Supplier Management / Purchasing / Engineering degree

- Minimum 3-5 years'' experience

- Exceptional record on cost savings

- Intermediate to advance skills Excel, Word and Powerpoint or equivalent 

- Ability to identify risks and establish suitable contingency plans with cross-functional team

Duties:

- On time/On Cost/On Quality Customer Project launches

- Obtains and analyses quotes to determine best value

- Facilitate technical review and assessment (TRA) as part of sourcing process

- Recommend global sourcing solutions based on data and facts collected

- Understand the business and product needs for pricing and sourcing and ensure the sourcing recommendations align with Plant and Global Commodity Strategy for respective commodity

- Establish and execute strategies for assigned commodities

- Attend Global Commodity Management calls for assigned commodities as plant representative

- Understand and effectively utilise key cost drivers and industry related events to assigned commodities

- Formulate annual business plans for achievement of cost reductions and year over year performance improvement

- Manage and negotiate supply agreements that require improvements in suppliers'' cost, delivery, quality, order lead time, payment cycles, technology and/or risk mitigation 

- Initiates renegotiation efforts well in advance of contract expiration, and monitors industry trends to anticipate opportune timing to lock in contracting advantages

- Monitors performance of the suppliers to ensure attainment of the objectives in quality, delivery, service and cost

- Coordinates supplier selection

- Leads supplier transitions and supplier change requests (CSDs for supplier requests)

- Monitors compliance with supplier contractual requirements

- Identify opportunities for global leverage of volumes and purchasing power

- Ensure and monitor the results and contribution of the assigned commodity, to departmental and corporate objectives

- Present special assignment results, project updates and such to management as required

- Ensure annual 3% saving on managed spend target is achieved as well as any revised stretch target

- All other duties as assigned

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