What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer – Automotive Parts position at Expleo?
Overview
Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.
Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain.
With 17,000 employees and a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world. We are in Romania since 1994 and currently counting 1500 colleagues
Responsibilities
- Coordinate tender strategy and planning.
- Manage strategic sourcing: propose strategy, build scenarios, negotiation strategies, propose sourcing, present sourcing recommendation to management.
- Work in collaboration with the different stakeholders to manage the sourcing for new contracts and contract renewal.
- Lead the contract drafting in French or English and negotiation with the supplier in collaboration with the stakeholders and legal department.
- Manage the contract to ensure productivity, and quality during the execution phase.
- Support communication about contracts with the dealer/hub network.
- Contribute to local implementation of the contracts.
- Build list of saving portfolio and follow actions to deliver savings.
- Contribute to the purchasing team efficiency: propose new ideas, lead specific action plan.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a buyer with a focus on automotive parts procurement.
- Strong level in performing quantitative analysis.
- Fluent in English. French is a plus.
- SAP Environment knowledge is a plus.
- Impactful communication, collaboration, influence results oriented.
- Organized & rigorous, proactive-adaptable with self-confident, controlled.
- Permanent Learning, Innovative thinking & knowledge transfers.
Benefits
- Meal Vouchers.
- Private medical insurance.
- Performance bonus.
- Easter and Christmas bonus.
- Employee referral bonus.
- Bookster subscription.
- Work from home options depending on project.
- Various discounts (7Card, Lensa, World Class & more).
