Purchasing Manager

Our partner is a prestigious company in the automotive sector. We are looking for a purchasing manager to enforce the team in this position

MAIN PURPOSE OF POSITION: Manage the Electronic Division Purchasing function ensuring quality, cost, delivery, risk-management and environmental performance

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring supplier performance and any necessary Quality, Cost, Delivery, Risk Management and Environmental improvements are implemented
• The below activities and responsibilities are not limited to direct material purchasing but also indirect purchasing activities in different sites
• To develop the purchasing team in order to fully support the team’s activities so they can work proactively and alone to meet their personal objectives as well as the objectives of the purchasing team
• To develop and maintain a sourcing strategy for the various categories of purchased items, including the proactive search for new sources to reduce cost, improve geographical spread and where a supplier/subcontractor can offer production technologies in areas currently not available at our facilities
• To develop and maintain a price management strategy for the various categories of purchased items, including strategies for mitigating or avoiding price increases caused by market effects, for ex. labour cost increases, commodity price increases, etc. To work closely with other affiliates to develop the purchasing strength of the business
• To ensure new suppliers are properly assessed and they are approved and “on-boarded” in line with the company’s policies and procedures
• To develop suppliers through focused activity working with SQA and Supplier Development teams to support suppliers to improve their efficiency, quality and reduce costs
• Implement and maintain robust BCP plans from a supplier’s point of view to highlight risks in the supply chain and advise the business on appropriate stocking policies to mitigate risk of failure to supply customers
• To manage new product introduction, investigating parts and components and aligning suppliers to ensure effective implementation.
• Adopting a proactive approach to analysing supplier markets including price level studies and undertaking detailed analysis
• To provide weekly, monthly or ad-hoc business reporting as required by the General Manager – Business Administration
• Identify cost reduction and avoidance opportunities and take actions to realise the opportunities
• To offer support and management to the Purchasing Team for both direct suppliers, (suppliers of goods for final products) and indirect suppliers (supplier of goods that are used indirectly, i.e capex, consumables, services, etc.
• Review, develop and maintain purchasing processes in line with customer, parent company, legislative and 3rd party quality system requirements in line with IATF. Ensuring the IT systems that purchasing interface with NPA and CMACS are robust and are enhanced to meet purchasing requirements
• Assisting the company’s manufacturing sites during escalation of supplier quality and logistics issues
• Carry out other comparable duties as required by the Vice President

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Purchasing automotive experience
• Experience in quality management with formal qualification and with good knowledge of quality systems and automotive quality requirements
• Computer literate
• Ability to manage people
• Ability to work alone and under pressure
• Good organisational skills