Buyer

Job description

• Benchmark commodities and manage a buyer business plan to exceed cost reduction objectives
• Actively link with counterparts in the others regions to ensure global strategies and drive localization requirements.
• Link & leverage current and new businesses.
• Constantly follow up and update the Buyer Business Plan & Pipeline for on-time performance/sourcing implementations.
• Globally source all components/suppliers on a regular base.
• Understand/negotiate cost impact related to design changes.
• Early communicate/negotiate with supplier BWI’s expectations for:
• Supplier Quality
• Logistics/BWI's Manufacturing System Requirements
• Continuous improvement
• Ensure on time data transmission to the other Purchasing functions:
• Supplier development engineers for Supplier Quality Improvement Process implementation. Advance purchasing group for program/project management purposes.

Requirements

• Engineering/Business Degree
• Fluent English
• Organizational /leadership and communication skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel
• Problem solving skills

Additional advantage will be:

• Purchasing experience: negotiation skills, purchasing process skills
• Multiple language skills
• Product/Manufacturing engineering experience

We offer

In return for commitment, the company offers an interesting job in an international environment, contacts with the global automotive industry, attractive salary and the possibility of further development