COMMODITIES MANAGER
Responsibility: Manage the purchases of GT group according to 3 main targets: Quality – Costs – On time delivery (OTD)
Scope: Commodities locally managed for GT Mexico plants, Essency US and family lead buying for GT group (worldwide)
Analysis of the company needs
- Identify the current and future needs by commodities.
- Analyse annual needs by commodities in terms of quantity and quality;
- Turn the purchasing policy into commodities ’ strategic orientations: levers, targets in terms of quality and quantity of suppliers;
- Integrate the internal customers’ needs to get a better knowledge about market trend, hence a better understanding and anticipation of its impact on purchases
Analysis of the market
· Survey technology and economic intelligence on family market;
· Identify the potential suppliers that would be able to answer to our need;
- Pre-quality the suppliers (benchmarking) according to key items such as technical nature and performance of products, capacity of production, payment terms, financial health of the supplier… (RFI)
Selection of suppliers and products
- Qualify the suppliers according to quality, costs and OTD targets defined with internal customers (engineering department, quality, procurement, production) by calls for tender and/or business appointment;
- Select supplier in line with Total Cost of Ownership vision (TCO)
- Integrate the company values and global vision for suppliers’ relationships management
- Set up a panel of suppliers and develop close ties with them
Negotiation
- Communicate with the suppliers about our company, ours needs, business development according to the business expectations of the suppliers;
- Set the targets about prices, volumes, lead-time and quality for each product or material necessary for the functioning of the company;
- Analyse and/or anticipate the sales targets of the supplier: production costs, margin, market position, financial health, the salesman’s sensitivity;
- Negotiate the contracts along with the Purchasing Manager according to the company targets: prices, compulsory criteria such as quality, volumes and lead-times, payment terms, R&D maturity, …
Monitoring suppliers and contracts
- Ensure compliance with contractual agreements;
- Support the Supplier Quality Manager in evaluating suppliers according to criteria defined by the Purchasing General Management and the SQM (Suppliers’ "rating");
- Ensure internal communication to aim at enhancing the consideration of purchases throughout production processes.
Reporting and budget monitoring
- Monitor reporting to Purchasing General Management;
- Follow the budget associated with the dedicated purchases portfolio
Skills ACTIVITIES/SECTOR:
- Master degree in Purchasing & Supply Chain
- Technical & Mechanical background/experience
- Negotiation in complex environment
Skills TOOLS:
- Expertise in ERP systems and Suite Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Languages:
- English
- Spanish (Optional)
Soft Skills:
- Technical curiosity
- Listening
- Clear communication
- Good analytical principles
- Tenacity
- Responsibility / Autonomy
- Standability orientation
- Local business priority
- US culture
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $100,000.00 per year
Schedule:
Experience:
- Negotiation: 3 years (Preferred)
- Purchasing: 3 years (Preferred)
Work Location: One location