Buyer - Exterior

Position Name Buyer - Exterior

Purpose of the Position (Short Summary of the Role):

This position is responsible for sourcing of Bumper, Paints, Process Materials, cost estimation, capacity planning, evaluate engineering change request, release of contracts, releasing Purchase Orders (Tooling & Components), part development and tooling development tracking

Ensure execution of activities as per group purchasing processes.

Authority:

• Create supplier bidder list, create and release RFQs
• Negotiations, prepare and present sourcing package in sourcing committees.
• Issue purchasing contracts after approval, release and amend part and investment orders, create GRN
• Evaluation of change request, capacity agreements with supplier.
• Resolve supplier related escalations topics (R&D, Logistics, Quality and related functions)
• Yearly commercial negotiations, component resourcing, cost-saving idea generation
• Raw material price amendments

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:

• Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts
• Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure
• Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan.
• Annual purchase order release / contracts
• Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)
• Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
• Explore new technologies, alternate raw material , Value Engg. proposals for cost reduction
• (FMK , Q gene , P-gene , complexity reduction )
• Do global sourcing and evaluate saving potentials for material cost reduction
• Monitor raw material & Forex trends
• Annual asset verification for tooling at suppliers end
• QMS / EMS : Provide necessary support for the implementation / sustenance of Quality, Energy, Environment and Information Security Management Systems within the Commodity.

Sourcing Activities:

• Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list
• Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform
• Gather inputs for releasing enquiry , Create and Release RFQs in system
• Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBDs )
• Request for Targets for part price and investments.
• Do a plausibility check of offers based on cost estimation
• Price negotiation and get final offers from suppliers.
• Facilitate and ensure technical review , QTR , quality and R&D audits
• Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals
• Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing
• Prepare sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility alignment with group buyers.
• Present in Sourcing Committees ( ISC/ SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB )
• In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER
• (Target approval forum )
• Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA
• Get Sign off of Purchasing Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from suppliers.
• Project handover documents and organize kick off meeting with supplier and CFT
• (QA , R&D , logistics , SRM)
• Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3)

Tooling activities

• Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning
• Release of Tooling Purchasing Order on approval of Fund Request
• Release of Purchasing Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoices for cost changes.
• Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools

Change Management

• Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. )
• Do plausibility check , negotiate the change requests , and provide evaluation in the requested format.
• Create & issue change request approval
• Coordination and agreement with suppliers for timelines and implementation.

Development activities

• Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility
• Tracking and reporting the development activities
• Follow-up meetings and supplier visits