DGM/General Manager - Sourcing - Auto Components

Responsibilities :

- Manage the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending

- Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies

- Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure

- Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals

- Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency

- Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes

- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers

- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

- Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques

- Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers

- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries

Requirements and skills :

- Proven work experience as a Sourcing Manager or Procurement Manager

- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software

- Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement

- Strong project management and leadership skills

- Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships

- Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data

- Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions

- BSc degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration