Global Category Buyer-

Business Responsibilities

• Responsible Global Category buyer for Casting, Stamping, Metal sub assembly commodities.
• Mentorship of assigned suppliers, Support for localization activity
• Conducting market research for benchmarking
• Supplier selection and Business awarding
• Leading Negotiation (Yearly price negotiation, cost benchmarking knowledge)
• Defining and Execution of Supplier and Material field strategy
• Continuous improvement mindset to bring in better process and solutions

Delivery Responsibilities

• Responsible for capacity planning and contracting at suppliers
• Alignment with Project Purchasing and Logistics team for capacity planning 

Managerial and Governance Responsibilities

• Supplier mentorship (Single point of contact for all commercial related topics
• Monitoring of Supplier performance (Nego results, NPD , Quality and delivery metrices)
• Monitoring of monthly KPIs, Data analytics and Management info sharing
• Support internal stakeholders and develop supplier / Material field strategy accordingly

Qualifications

Engineering (B.E. / B-Tech in Mechanical / Industrial), or MBA

Additional Information

Key Result Areas

• Overall Purchasing performance (Negotiation, RPP, Supplier Quality)
• Defining and execution of Supplier and Material field strategy

Desired Experience

• Experience between 5 to 8 years in strategic purchasing along with Machined, Casting, Stamping Sub assembly parts process know-how.
• SAP (MM Module) knowledge
• Experience in dealing with Technical documents like BOMs, Drawings and Norms

Functional Skills/Competencies

• Negotiation skills
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
• Team player