Commodity Buyer - Electronics

The ideal candidate will have strategic sourcing experience across Electronics & Electro-Mechanical commodities. He/she need to have experience in automotive industry. He /she need to have experience in working with cross-functional teams across various regions. He /She should have a successful track record of managing suppliers at all levels of management to achieve objectives, successfully managed and negotiated pricing globally.

Key Responsibilities :

- Work continuously in defining and executing supplier strategies for all company locations/regions to have good healthy supplier panel across all regions,

- Work closely with engineering, customer teams and regional procurement team ensuring the future needs in terms of new technologies and new supplier addition are identified and answered while deciding commodity strategy

- Planning and controlling AOP for the commodity in order to deliver on key goals like, achieving YOY productivity targets, improving working capital, efficient utilization of CAPEX ,etc

- Tracking and managing generic parts capacity on regular basis. Assess and plan addition of capacity by working closely with supply chain and regional procurement team ensuring no capacity issues.

- Work closely with product line sourcing manager for on time sourcing of platform parts at best cost

- Need to work with supplier for price negotiation, supplier agreements, General Terms and Conditions Agreement, consignment stock agreement and raw material and Fx indexation agreement.

- Support NPI team, supplier quality, supply chain and regional procurement team for supplier related issues (Comprehensive ownership of supplier performance)

- Work continuously with all stake holders like suppliers, engineering, quality, etc. to generate good pipe line of VAVE ideas.

Basic Qualifications And Skill Sets :

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably Electronics stream.

- 7+ Years experience in Strategic Sourcing.

- Good at buying, negotiation, and agreement/contract administration

- Good analytical skills

- Demonstrated ability to manage / lead multiple projects and changing priorities

- Willing to stretch and work with different time zone

- Effective team leader and team participant

- Able to challenge the status quo and come up with new ideas

- Skilled in Microsoft Office.