Position Name Buyer - Exterior
Purpose of the Position (Short Summary of the Role):
This position is responsible for sourcing of Bumper, Paints, Process Materials, cost estimation, capacity planning, evaluate engineering change request, release of contracts, releasing Purchase Orders (Tooling & Components), part development and tooling development tracking
Ensure execution of activities as per group purchasing processes.
Authority:
- Create supplier bidder list, create and release RFQs
- Negotiations, prepare and present sourcing package in sourcing committees.
- Issue purchasing contracts after approval, release and amend part and investment orders, create GRN
- Evaluation of change request, capacity agreements with supplier.
- Resolve supplier related escalations topics (R&D, Logistics, Quality and related functions)
- Yearly commercial negotiations, component resourcing, cost-saving idea generation
- Raw material price amendments
Skills Required :
- Knowledge of supplier base, material price trends & manufacturing processes, product technical information.
- Knowledge for purchasing processes and systems, commercial-legal terms and their implication, QMS, EnMS.
- Communication, Negotiation, Analytical, Assertiveness skills
- Knowledge of MS office
Key Responsibilities &Tasks:
- Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts
- Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure
- Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan.
- Annual purchase order release / contracts
- Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)
- Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
- Explore new technologies, alternate raw material , Value Engg. proposals for cost reduction
- (FMK , Q gene , P-gene , complexity reduction )
- Do global sourcing and evaluate saving potentials for material cost reduction
- Monitor raw material & Forex trends
- Annual asset verification for tooling at suppliers end
- QMS / EMS : Provide necessary support for the implementation / sustenance of Quality, Energy, Environment and Information Security Management Systems within the Commodity.
Sourcing Activities:
- Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list
- Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform
- Gather inputs for releasing enquiry , Create and Release RFQs in system
- Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBDs )
- Request for Targets for part price and investments.
- Do a plausibility check of offers based on cost estimation
- Price negotiation and get final offers from suppliers.
- Facilitate and ensure technical review , QTR , quality and R&D audits
- Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals
- Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing
- Prepare sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility alignment with group buyers.
- Present in Sourcing Committees ( ISC/ SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB )
- In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER
- (Target approval forum )
- Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA
- Get Sign off of Purchasing Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers.
- Project handover documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and CFT
- (QA , R&D , logistics , SRM)
- Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3)
Tooling activities
- Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning
- Release of Tooling Purchasing Order on approval of Fund Request
- Release of Purchasing Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoices for cost changes.
- Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools
Change Management
- Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. )
- Do plausibility check , negotiate the change requests , and provide evaluation in the requested format.
- Create & issue change request approval
- Coordination and agreement with suppliers for timelines and implementation.
Development activities
- Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility
- Tracking and reporting the development activities
- Follow-up meetings and supplier visits
