plant buyer.

Responsibilities:

• Define and guarantee Commodity performance
• Guarantee: delivery, PPI, OTD, PPM/NCR
• Build, follow-up and monitor the local sourcing action plans
• Participate in the elaboration of the purchasing budgets
• Optimize working capital needs, decrease the level of inventories, decrease the administrative cost (number of PO and invoices)
• Ensure Management System compliancy
• Benchmark with other sites within the Organization

Manage the supplier base:

• Consult, negotiate, select and contract the supplier on every needs of the commodity.

Negotiate also:

• development and delivery lead-time,
• frozen/flexible/forecast delivery schedule and MOQ/MDQ quantity. Provide 2 years volume

visibility.

• Rationalize the supplier panel.
• Manage their QCD Performance. Optimize supplier performance including continuous improvement
• Guaranty that every Purchase Order is placed in the negotiated contracts accordingly to decision made, provide 2 years visibility to suppliers.

Not only guaranty the best “Total Cost of Ownership” but also challenge our organization

o Define and lead the purchasing actions to increase profitability of the projects

o Participate pro actively in make-or-buy and outsourcing decisions. Implement the local & corporate industrial strategies, give inputs to the « Make or Buy » processes. Manage as Project Manager validated Out-Sourcing projects.

o Anticipate project needs propose a strategy to any new project (Be involved upstream, guarantee Cost Control, planning, fulfil Project needs. Be the preferred point of contact for project buyers).

Define and lead the Commodity Strategy answering the plants needs (actual and future)

o Mapping of actual spent (supplier mapping & supply flows, technology mapping, competition risks,

knowhow & technology shifts, Purchase Amount trends, shortage Impacts, Contracting and Terms & Conditions situation, obsolete management...)

o Drive and Monitor the selection process of new suppliers, from identification of potential suppliers, first contacts, to qualification, audits, assessments & contracting and up to the validation of processes

o Definition of the Sourcing Plan including a Supplier Reduction (SuRe) plan, nomination of a Core Panel;

o Target Supplier nomination, verification of their competences, capabilities & QCD levels and of

development potential;

o Negotiate frame agreements and supply contracts;

o Ensure the technical and market intelligence for his/her commodities;

o Advertise the success stories and the best practices to build momentum;

o Align purchasing strategies with the needs of the plant. By means of developing and involving

engineering in a Technical Savings program, by means of challenging the Centre of Competence as

well as the Project Engineering, and take part to the standardization (parts / raw material) and to the design rule definition;

Profile:

➢ Purchasing professional; skilled negotiator;

➢ High level of technical understanding

➢ Fluent in English, other languages are a plus

➢ Experience in a globalized industrial environment

➢ Working experience in cross-functional teams

Mission:

• Guarantee Purchasing performance for the Commodity (QCD, working capital)

• Manage the supplier base to obtain the necessary improvements to achieve the above and protect the plant against potential unfavorable market trends.

• Not only guaranty the best “Total Cost of Ownership” but also challenge organization to ensure that the above is met in particular for the make-or-buy decision and supplier management cost.