Commodity Manager

Job description

Full responsibility of Leadership and People Development

• Implement and maintain a network within the Category and the other Categories within the Cluster organization to share competence and best practices
• Coach and develop the team and employee
• Actively support the team and employees in case of problems
• Control the target achievement for the Category
• Representing entire Global Category for China and align with global category manager Full responsibility of Achieve best market conditions:

Actively influence the sourcing process through

• Supplier selection
• Negotiation of prices and closure of contracts
• Sourcing decision
• Provide whole China demand of the global category and align with global category management the impact and executive on the platform sourcings Full responsibility of Negotiation:
• Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation of AUMOVIO in case of escalation
• Negotiate with suppliers and represent AUMOVIO in front of the supplier's management
• Apply negotiation concepts (like Advanced negotiation concept) to actively support & execute bundling within the respective Category
• Negotiate non conformance cost with suppliers Full responsibility of Contract Management:
• Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts with the respective suppliers Full responsibility of Data maintenance :
• Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems
• Responsibility for monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement Shared response of Material and Supplier strategy:

Develop a material and supplier strategy

• Conduct market analysis
• Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners
• Ensure that AUMOVIO requirements are reflected in the strategy
• Define and develop supplier portfolio for China in align with the global category
• Document and implement the strategy in all BAs and ensure sourcing execution
• Support GCM with BASE evaluation and creation of the strategic SCF Support to Continous Cost reduction:
• Support re-design in cost reduction programs
• Drive improvement programs with suppliers

Qualifications

Required experience

• Several years of experience in different purchasing functions; -Experience in leadership position; -Capability to negotiate and operate with different cultures; -Experience in working with international teams on Purchasing issues; -Understanding for different foreign cultures (NAFTA/ Asia, several European cultures); Required knowledge: Expert level:
• Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc.); -Human relations skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking); -Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures; -Procurement Process and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge; -Technical understanding of specific components; -Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.; Advanced level:
• Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques; -Project management skills, tools and techniques; -Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms (IATF 19649/ VDA 6.1); -Risk Management