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Job Overview
Leads complex sourcing initiatives and category execution activities with increased autonomy. Drives supplier selection, contract negotiation, and sourcing strategy implementation to deliver sustainable cost, innovation, and risk outcomes.
Job Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all relevant KPIs in the plant about productivity, delivery and quality, ensuring fulfillment of leading indicators as well.
- Create a supplier sourcing strategy, under strong consideration of customer needs, that defines strategic suppliers into grow, fix and exit suppliers and maintains product footprint, incl. “make or buy”-analysis.
- Drive Sourcing projects with the global suppliers in close coordination with internal and external stake holders
- Drive the attainment and improvement of relevant procurement KPI’s, incl. Material Productivity (CMP), Lead time performance, delivery (STR/STC), and Quality (DLPM).
- Responsible for improving material productivity, build strong material pipeline using relevant TE tools (CMP, TEBIT and WAV analysis)
- Lead and Drive Resourcing, VA/VE projects in collaboration with Internal stake holders and suppliers
- Responsible for contracting of supplier commercial agreements, incl. bailment, inventory management and supply agreements.
- Responsible for preparing RFQ’s, utilizing E-Tools, awarding new business and negotiation all raw materials, components, and tooling
- Lead supplier rationalization, add / reduce supplier,
- Identify and develop new suppliers in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Closely monitor capabilities and capacities of suppliers to avoid crisis
- Accountable for info record and PO accuracy and communicate relevant data to SCM, incl. lead time, price and MOQ
- Responsible for conducting Quarterly Business Review’s (QBR) with strategic suppliers and the drive of respective corrective actions
- Ensure and Drive MOQ and Lead Time optimization for material/components (incl. finished goods) used by the plant for production and establish supplier agreements, e. g. VMI, consignment, Scheduling Agreements frame order review, blanket PO)
- Maintain healthiness of supplier by timely conducting risk assessment and ensure that all suppliers meet TE requirements for compliance (RoHS, Reach, conflict minerals, supplier portal usage)
- Drive / support the function to comply with the ISO Related documents, process and compliance check on regular frequency
What your background should look like
- Bachelor or above, Engineering background Mechanical Engineering Preferred
- 10+ years’ years’ experience in sourcing area
- Experience in Stamping, die or overmolding. Candidate with connector industry is preferred
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continues improvement attitude
- Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task
- Ability to work in a matrix environment with multi-cultural teams
- Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends
- Knowledge of regional and global supplier base for relevant commodities
- Advanced knowledge in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
- Fluent spoken and written in English at negotiation level & conference call level,
- Proactive, detailed-oriented
- Strong analytical skills
- Cross-functional skills
Competencies