Position Name : Buyer

Department : Purchase

Grade : Tariff

Vacancy : 1

Qualification : Engineering - Bachelor's Degree or other

Experience : 6-8 yrs

Location : Pune

Purpose of the Position:

Knowledge of sources of supplier base, supply, markets, pricing and commodity trends/ Techno commercial professional/ Vendor Development/ Purchasing process and systems/ Commercial terms.

Skills - Purchasing/ Sourcing / Negotiation/ Tool Costing/ Part Costing/ Vendor Development/ Exposure to Car Interior & Exterior trims/ Experience in monitoring new product launches in Automotive Ind.

· This position is responsible for sourcing of production materials and raw material (steel), cost estimation, capacity planning, evaluate change request, release of contracts, releasing Purchase orders (Tooling & Components), part development and tracking

· Ensure execution of activities as per group purchasing processes.

 

Skills Required:

· Knowledge of supplier base, material price trends & manufacturing processes, product technical information.

· Knowledge for purchasing processes and systems, commercial-legal terms and their implication, QMS, EnMS.

· Communication, Negotiation, Analytical, Assertiveness skills

· Knowledge of MS office

 

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

1. Series activities:

1. Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts

2. Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure

3. Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan.

4. Annual purchase order release / contracts

5. Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)

6. Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding

7. Explore new technologies, alternate raw material , Value Engg. proposals for cost reduction

8. (FMK , Q –gene , P-gene , complexity reduction )

9. Do global sourcing and evaluate saving potentials for material cost reduction

10. Monitor raw material & Forex trends

11. Annual asset verification for tooling at suppliers end

12. QMS / EMS : Provide necessary support for the implementation / sustenance of Quality, Energy, Environment and Information Security Management Systems within the Commodity.

 

2. Sourcing Activities:

1. Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list

2. Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform

3. Gather inputs for releasing enquiry , Create and Release RFQs in system

4. Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBD’s )

5. Request for Targets for part price and investments.

6. Do a plausibility check of offers based on cost estimation

7. Price negotiation and get final offers from suppliers.

8. Facilitate and ensure technical review , QTR , quality and R&D audits

9. Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals

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10. Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing

11. Prepare sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility , alignment with group buyers.

12. Present in Sourcing Committees ( ISC/ SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB )

13. In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER

14. (Target approval forum )

15. Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA

16. Get Sign off of Purchasing Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers.

17. Project handover documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and CFT

18. (QA , R&D , logistics , SRM)

19. Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3)

 

3. Tooling activities:

1. Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning

2. Release of Tooling Purchasing Order on approval of Fund Request

3. Release of Purchasing Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoices for cost changes.

4. Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools

 

4. Change Management:

1. Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. )

2. Do plausibility check , negotiate the change requests , and provide evaluation in the requested format.

3. Create & issue change request approval

4. Coordination and agreement with suppliers for timelines and implementation.

 

5. Development activities:

1. Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility

2. Tracking and reporting the development activities

3. Follow-up meetings and supplier visits