Your tasks:

• Monitoring continuously the economical, technical & social market trends for the assigned categories and suppliers (market surveys).
• Perform internal and external analysis/benchmarks of respective categories, and organize research on the market for alternatives in terms of potential suppliers, prices, products, or services
• Develop a country purchasing strategy in coordination with global category managers
• Supports implementation of a worldwide purchasing strategy
• Performs complex national RfQs negotiations according to strategic framework based on purchase request and tender books of internal requestor
• Ensure a compliant supplier selection / release process, as well as preparation for the awarding / decision process according to defined thresholds
• Conduct relevant supplier contracts of high complexity (e.g. Framework Agreement, Service Level Agreement, Quality Assurance Agreement) in close collaboration with legal dept. and respective country plants
• Ensure the publication of the negotiation results within the organization and purchasing network
• Identify and initiate savings potential and improvement-opportunities (e.g. VA/VE and localization ideas)
• Regular coordination / review meetings with the relevant internal stakeholders to increase customer satisfaction
• Verify monthly purchasing reporting and track it in the respective tool sols
• Executes and implements solutions for supplier escalations, especially for Delivery delays and allocations to safeguard indirect material and services supplies
• Recovers non-conformance and non-performance costs from suppliers (in escalation)
• Pushing suppliers to provide all required information for our business upon due time (e.g. warranty issues, potential delivery delays).
• Monitoring suppliers contract adherence and validity continuously together with the internal contract requestor and implementing measures to solve deviations. Prepares addendums to update contracts according to newly negotiated conditions.
• Meets strategic (national) suppliers regularly to exchange information and tackling actual topics, including regular on-site visits at the suppliers (technology know-how)
• Document and archive all data in a process conform and auditable way
• Uses purchasing tools according to purchasing processes to be applied
  Initiates and supports continuous improvement measures
• Support other Purchasing organizations within aligned Categories if requested
• Adhere all regulations and guidelines of the Company and specifically for purchasing tasks

Your skills:

• University Degree in Finance / Commercial / Economics or relevant fields
• Work experience in area: Minimum of  5 years in financial or logistic or purchasing department
• Good communication skills in English:  B1 / B2 Level minimum  
• Bid Analysis 
• Purchasing Agreements     
• Requests for Proposal        
• Service Level Agreements  
• Supplier/Vendor Management      
• Benchmarking        
• Documentation      
• Contract Analysis    
• Reporting    
• Contract Management
• Excellent skills at Purchasing Applications and Reporting Tools              
• Good skills at ERP Planning Systems         

Our offer:

• Great team energy in an international environment
• Work in accordance with the highest standards in the automotive industry
• Opportunity for professional development and career promotions
• Continuous learning and improvement