About the job
Lead the development and management of certain global/regional commodity strategies designed to leverage BW collective purchasing power and maximize synergistic opportunities to optimize supplier performance, reduced total supply costs while meeting our technology expectations throughout the supply chain. Ensure commodity plan deliverables meet designed strategies. Negotiate key supplier contracts. Provide global leadership in the communication, implementation, coordination, and enforcement of commodity strategies.
- Manage supply base for existing production materials.
- Maintain competitive pricing with emphasis on cost reductions, quality, and supplier delivery performance.
- Identify appropriate source to select considering strategic commodity business plan.
- Create (electrical) RFQ package and analyze & score to select best supplier.
- Negotiate and award suppliers meeting GSM commodity strategy and policy.
- Hold kick-off meeting with supplier awarded and support APQP management at suppliers
- Release tooling POs and manage supplier tooling documents required
- Enter related data to ERP system and issue prototype, PPAP orders & Blanket POs to suppliers.
- Manage supplier changes during development and mass production.
- Verify supplier capacity to meet program volume requirement.
- Finalize agreement Terms & Conditions including freight, payment terms, currency etc.
- Manage supplier data for system including supplier contact, price, terms etc
- Manage value & nonvalue add permanent supplier changes
- Track and improve supplier performance – cost, quality, delivery actual.
- Resolve commercial and capacity issues at suppliers.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives and meet cost reduction targets.
- Support global commodity strategies
- Manage cost of indirect materials
- Create ideas and implement cost reduction for indirect materials
- Analyze material pass through impact regular basis
- Recommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs.
- Explore available technology and implements best practices related to purchasing activities.
- Evaluate part design with engineering, quality and suppliers to obtain optimum efficiencies.
- Manage and administrate multiple databases and systems important to the Purchasing function (SPS, SAP, Part Portal etc.)
- Maintain supplier contact points as of the latest version.
- Collect z-scores for local suppliers to clarify their financial status on regular basis.
