Stellendetail

BCS Automotive Interface Solutions offers great opportunities. It combines the experience of a long-standing automotive supplier, which has existed for almost 70 years and employs 3,500 people worldwide, with the exciting challenges of a new company, as it has recently become independent.

The momentum of the automotive industry and the multinational team around the world completes a very interesting work environment. Maybe your future? - Do it!

Job Purpose and Main Objectives

· Support and Execution of the Commodity strategy;

· Improvement of Cost, Quality and Delivery;

· Sourcing and nomination of new components to strategic suppliers;

· Monitoring the market and deriving actions and adjustments for the strategy and supply base out of that;

· Acting as escalation level for quality and delivery issues.

Success Factors (knowledge, skills, attitude essential to perform the role)

· Cost, Quality and Delivery improvement knowledge;

· Experience in sourcing of new products;

· Price- and contract negotiations;

· Successful resourcing projects;

· Basic technical understanding and logical thinking.

Job duties

· Supporting the development of the regional Commodity Strategy, including cost reduction initiatives, introduction of new products, global benchmarking and initiatives for improvement of the quality;

· Analysis of products in regards to quality, cost and delivery performance;

· Sourcing and nomination of new business to strategic suppliers based on the BCS purchasing guidelines;

· Driving of In-Sourcing and Re-Sourcing activities;

· Escalation level for critical supply situations, production bottlenecks, and quality issues;

· Analysis of the global procurement market and world economy as well as benchmarking the competitiveness of the current supply base;

· Price- and contract- negotiations with suppliers as well as annual price negotiations;

· Responsibility for identification and execution of cost reduction initiatives through the organization;

· Analysis and calculation of components, for target setting;

· Securing competitiveness of suppliers by leading efficiency- and improvement-workshops.

· Educational Background & Job-Related Experience

· Bachelor´s degree in Economics or Engineering or as industrial clerk with extensive (>6 years) purchasing experience;

· Minimum 3 years of experience in Automotive Purchasing, preferred in Commodity Management;

· Technical understanding of production processes and manufacturing;

· Economic and target oriented way of thinking, including high analytical skills as well as a structured way of working;

· Assertive, with excellent negotiation skills, convincing communication skills and team oriented;

· Willingness to perform and to travel, high flexibility and resilience;

· Sovereign knowledge of MS office especially Excel;

· Basic SAP knowledge;

· Fluent in English language and preferable in German language.