New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, forvia anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you’re willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, forvia is the place to be.
if you’re ambitious, driven and team-spirited, this is your opportunity to build a career as a commodity buyer in san juan del río, qro.
overall responsibilities and duties:
the buyer is responsible to develop and manage the supplier panel for a specific commodity segment, selecting suppliers according to faurecia group criteria, apply purchasing policy, and develop suppliers to continuously improve qcd performance. The buyer identifies and leads ideas and initiatives in order to improve the global productivity and achieve or surpass financial objectives. Additional responsibilities of the buyer are:
* improve financial performance of the division through supplier negotiations, resourcing and productivity actions
* monitor supplier quality, cost and delivery performance and challenge supplier when supplier is falling short of targets
the main responsibilities of the role are:
* develop and execute segment commodity strategy;
* define and lead activities aligned to commodity strategy
* responsible for delivering purchasing budget, updating forecast, reporting monthly savings
* support program buyers with sourcing of new segments and supplier panel definition
* pursue optimally economical costs for goods/services required, in conjunction with obtaining continual long term agreement savings opportunities
* performs continual review and evaluation of the current supply base and also new potential suppliers through cross-functional supplier audits/visits based on the criteria provided by group
* facilitate continuous improvement activities with the supply base to support va/ve savings opportunities
* ecr/eo activity – obtain quotes for engineering changes, understand and challenge supply base assumptions
* lead supplier va/ve activity and participate in lean manufacturing workshops
* progress savings from inception through to implementation.
minimum education level: bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or related field.
experience:
* 3 years in automotive industry
* 3 years in direct purchasing role
* sap experience (preferred)
skills & competencies:
* must have very good excel and word skills
* advanced english level
* strong communication skills
* able to accommodate ~15% - 20% travel (domestic & international)
* commitment to the highest ethical standards and willingness to adhere to faurecia’s code of ethics and code of management
* team player