Indirect Purchasing - Regional Buyer

Position Description

Title: Indirect

Reports To: Indirect Purchasing Country Manager

Essential responsibilities and duties

A Regional IdP buyer belongs to a Regional IdP team in charge of all plants. The role of a Regional IdP Buyer is to manage and monitor all supplier issues in line with Group Purchasing Strategy to improve Cost, Cashflow and Delivery performance, and to contribute to or to lead productivity actions.

The main missions of the role are to:

1. Be part of the IdP Commodity team projects :
1. Participate to the projects and competitive bids led by the IdP Commodity team. Integrate the needs of the region. Contribute to data collection, specifications, and evaluation of the results.
2. Take in charge the implementation of the commodity contracts in the Region. Ensure implementation follow-up and regular audits of the contract compliance.
2. Optimize purchases portofolio not covered by Corporate contracts or projects in progress :
1. Consolidate recurrent local needs, globalize comptetive bids, reduce supplier base and manage it through consistent contracts, at Regional level, involving Legal when necessary
2. Take in charge local one-shot needs, projects, negotiation and contracts
3. Guarantee supplier contracts are consistent, involving the legal department when necessary or following their guidelines, in order to protect the company.
4. Ensure follow-up of contract application and regular audit of contract compliance. Systematically deploy a reporting system with suppliers.
5. Make sure that the above actions are consistent with the Commodity strategy and identify subjects that could be generalized at national or corporate level to get a better benefit.
3. Lead or contribute to productivity and cost saving actions :
1. Work closely with the Plant Managers and the Plant departments to identify and run saving actions beyond price negotation, such as : best practices implementation, consumption reduction, technical optimization, standardization
2. Lead productivity action plan involving suppliers
3. Developing annual rate contracts, whereever applicable.
4. Manage the administrative purchase order process :
1. Be responsible of the purchase order process
2. Guarantee the compliance of the purchasing process with Faureica core procedures (FCP) rules in the various phases: competitive bids and supplier selection, purchase order process, as well as with the Code of Ethics.
3. Manage the supplier issues under purchasing responsibility, such as : prices agreement to be updated in the IT system, price discrepancies between purchase order price and invoice prices.
4. Manage the supplier issues: repetitive problem in quantity delivered, repetitive contract non compliance in services contract, .
5. Apply the methodoly and IT tools defined and implemented by Group IdP, such as :
1. Project management and associated reporting process, including PAP MRO
2. Contract Database, to store and manage all contracts
3. Hands on in SAP Ariba tool shall be an added advantage

Qualifications

ideal candidate

Minimum education level: B.E / B.Tech (MBA shall be an added advantage)

Experience:

• Minimum 12-15 years experience as an Indirect purchasing Buyer in an industrial environment (experience in automotive industry shall be an added advantage)
• Results oriented with strong written and oral communications skills
• Ability to work in a matrixed organisation
• Proven leadership capabilities.
• Bi-lingual English a must

Skills and competencies:

• Perspective
• Results oriented
• Learning on the fly
• Communication skills