Buyer - Epowertrain Ssu, Afs

**Responsibilities & Key Deliverables**
- Knowledge about electrical and electronics components in automobile firms. - Experience in electrical vehicle projects in automotive firms. - Experience in handling Li-ion battery components, including cells, modules, packs, BMS, wire harness, sensors, flexible PCB, BDU, and related materials.
Supplier Scouting and Industry Mapping: - Conduct thorough scouting of potential suppliers for electric powertrain components. - Perform detailed industry mapping to identify leading suppliers and emerging trends.
Supplier Selection and Price Negotiation: - Identify and select suitable suppliers for electric powertrain components. - Evaluate suppliers based on technical capabilities, cost, quality, and sustainability. - Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, reliability, and innovation. - Lead price negotiations, ensuring competitive pricing aligns with company standards and budget.
Costing and Product Cost Analysis: - Develop cost estimates for electric powertrain components using predefined templates and methodologies. - Regularly update costing models to reflect market conditions and supplier pricing.
Financial Analysis and Risk Assessment: - Analyze suppliers' balance sheets for commercial negotiations. - Assess financial health and risk indicators of suppliers to mitigate potential supply chain risks. - Conduct budget control.
Cost Reduction and Negotiation Strategies: - Identify and implement cost reduction ideas during negotiations. - Develop plans for cost savings without compromising quality or delivery timelines. - Collaborate with engineering and product development teams on value engineering opportunities.
Negotiation Skills: - Exhibit strong negotiation skills for favorable terms and pricing from suppliers. - Maintain robust relationships with suppliers for smooth negotiations and long-term partnerships.
Price Containment: - Implement strategies for effective price containment aligned with cost management objectives. - Devise sourcing strategies considering current and future business needs and industry dynamics.
Supplier Risk Management: - Develop and execute supplier risk management plans. - Proactively identify and mitigate geopolitical, environmental, and market-related risks.
Compliance and Ethical Conduct: - Ensure compliance to processes and systems with a high degree of ethical conduct.
Benchmarking Technology and Prices: - Conduct benchmarking studies to compare technology and prices across the industry. - Use benchmarking data for informed decision-making to ensure competitiveness.
Cross-Functional Team Coordination: - Demonstrate strong coordination and communication skills within cross-functional teams. - Facilitate collaboration among stakeholders to achieve common goals.
Additional Areas of Expertise: - Knowledge in handling development and supply agreements, including awareness of legal clauses. - Engage with suppliers to ensure compliance with ESG guidelines. - Conduct capacity planning and signoff with critical suppliers to ensure smooth supplies. - Regularly update prices to ensure accuracy, considering RM and Forex indexing.
Support to Business Units: - Provide support to other business units, including spares. - Develop differential sourcing strategies.

**Preferred Industries**

**Automobile**

**Farm Sector**

**Education Qualification**
- BE -Electrical & Electronics

**General Experience**
- 2 to 5 yrs experience

**Critical Experience**

**“Data Analyst”, MIS, Direct, Good Communication - buyer**Electric Power Train components
Desirable Skills:

Handling Suppliers, both domestic and international
Knowledge on Automotive Electricals / Electronics:

Analytical skills of understanding of Financial Statements.
SAP, Advanced excel, Presentation skill

**System Generated Core Skills**
- Analytical Thinking
Communication Skills
Influencing Skills
Project Planning & Execution
Risk Analysis
Supplier Selection
Pricing
Price Optimization
Supplier Risk Management
Sourcing
Strategic Sourcing
Benchmarking

**System Generated Secondary Skills**
- Negotiation
Project Management
Supplier Management

**Job Segment**:Electrical, Engineer, Automotive, Engineering