Purchase Category Buyer

3 hours ago

Pune, India Hitachi Full time

**Description**

**Job Title**: Purchase Category Buyer
**Grade**: Category Buyer
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra
**Company**: Hitachi Astemo Brake Systems India Pvt Ltd.
**Salary Range**: Up to 7LPA

**Company Overview**:
Hitachi Astemo Ltd, is mainly into Development, manufacture, sales and services of automotive components, transportation related components, industrial machines and systems, etc.

**Job Purpose**:

- Define, communicate, and deploy the global purchasing strategy for his/her category.
- Manage sourcing activities and ensure commercial supplier performance.
- Provide market intelligence and manage supply base

**Key Areas of Responsibilities**:
**1) Manage global category strategy**
- Define and build purchasing strategy for her/his category
- Deploy strategy and objectives in the regions
- Lead the elaboration of new ideas of savings with the team, ensure the execution of these ideas.

**2) Panel management - commercial supplier performance**
- Identify new suppliers, innovations,scout the market globally
- Develop and optimize global supplier panel
- Build long-term relationship with suppliers
- Lead projects to optimize supplier performance and maintain and develop supplier networking globally.
- Negotiate with key account suppliers (contracts,)
- In charge of suppliers’ selection process in her/his respective category.

**3) Support plants**
- Support facilities in case of escalation requested

**4) Team management**
- Foster a climate of teamwork and motivation within the team by encouraging entrepreneurship mindset, professional development, and growth of employees (assessment, training, coaching, and mentoring).
- Ensure the deployment of the company communication to the team
- Ensure appropriate work environment for the team

**Qualification**: Bachelor/master’s degree in mechanical engineering

**Experience**: Minimum 5-8 years of experience working in purchase / procurement

**Key Professional Competencies**
- Excellent business understanding
- Solid negotiation skills
- Deep knowledge of purchasing and lean manufacturing in Automotive industry
- Proven management skills, ideally in multicultural environment
- Fluent English level

**Key Personal Competencies**
- Strategy Understanding & Roll-out
- Implementation & Result Orientation
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Influence & Persuasion
- Communication & Presentation

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