Senior Engineer - Purchase (Tooling & Plastics)

Role & responsibilities

• Responsibility for creating tool strategy and purchasing/procurement of plastic injection, metal parts, and special parts.
• Manage procurement processes for tools, investments, materials, and services.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams and tool suppliers on the implementation of tools and parts establishment.
• Oversee tools/asset investment and budget allocation at suppliers.
• Conduct tools/asset verification and support tool scrapping processes as needed.
• Based on tool specifications, send out RFQs to part suppliers and toolmakers; negotiate favorable terms with suppliers.
• Support the tool maker during tool construction, starting with a detailed DFM analysis.
• Lead the pre-release process at the tool supplier and the tool release process at the part supplier, with support from the factory.
• Manage the tool maker portfolio and conduct yearly performance evaluations of tool suppliers; prepare commercial agreements and develop a tool maintenance booklet to share with suppliers.
• Assist local tool managers in factory operations during tool usage.
• Identify savings opportunities and reduce costs through reliable, high-productive tools while minimizing time-to-market by implementing new technologies.
• Optimize processes and tool parameters at suppliers.
• Ensure a significant competitive advantage for BSH on a total cost of ownership basis for assigned material groups by implementing a common sourcing strategy and maintaining the supplier portfolio.
• Responsible for regional strategic purchasing of plastic parts and global strategic purchasing of resins (PS, ABS, MB).
• Reporting, strategy implementation, troubleshooting, and execution of material group strategies.

Preferred candidate profile

• Initiate projects regarding cost engineering, value streams, and supplier enabling in collaboration with Supplier Management.
• Handle reporting topics related to costs, capacity, quality, and contracts while troubleshooting issues as they arise.
• Communication, strategy development, coordination, supplier market scouting, and new developments (quarterly).
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and BSH internal guidelines.

Experience required:

• 5+ years professional experience in supply chain management with a focus on purchasing (preferable)
• Experience in processes driven companies and art of functions in international companies. (preferable)
• Experience in exposure to handle inter-cultural problems.
• Negotiation experience and ability to stand pressure.
• Time and multi-task management ability

Preferred Qualification:

Bachelor's Degree from related fields.

Job Location: Chennai Appliance Park

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of tool / material group and supplier strategy given by GPU/REM
• Material group and market analysis & development, alignment and implementation of material group and supplier strategy/portfolio (incl. strategy approval process) for local or delegated spend.
• Supplier management (e.g. ensures supplier technical capacities, evaluates risk & performance, triggers supplier development, supplier visits, triggers & supports supplier release, manages supplier base, ensures SAP data maintenance, etc.)
• Support of regional negotiation & awarding (e.g. drives Rfx, negotiation & awarding process on tools, project, material group or supplier level). Ongoing alignment with GPU/REM in case of delegated spend.
• Production material: steering: MPC planning, ratio reporting and communication of pooling successes and input for the monthly savings report.
• Responsible for TCO performance of considered tools/commodities/categories.

Skillset:

• Product and Market knowledge
• Purchasing, factory and corporate processes
• Change-management.
• Coordination and Conflict resolution ability
• Social competence
• Assertiveness
• English in written and spoken.
• Negotiation and communication skills