Commodity Manager

Full responsibility of Leadership and People Development :

▪ Implement and maintain a network within the Category and the other Categories within the Cluster organization to share competence and best practices

▪ Coach and develop the team and employee

▪ Actively support the team and employees in case of problems

▪ Control the target achievement for the Category

▪ Representing entire Global Category for China and align with global category manager

Full responsibility of Achieve best market conditions:

▪ Actively influence the sourcing process through: ▪ Supplier selection ▪ Negotiation of prices and closure of contracts ▪ Sourcing decision

▪ Provide whole China demand of the global category and align with global category management the impact and executive on the platform sourcings

Full responsibility of Negotiation:

▪ Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation of AUMOVIO in case of escalation

▪ Negotiate with suppliers and represent AUMOVIO in front of the supplier's management

▪ Apply negotiation concepts (like Advanced negotiation concept) to actively support & execute bundling within the respective Category

▪ Negotiate non conformance cost with suppliers

Full responsibility of Contract Management:

▪ Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts with the respective suppliers

Full responsibility of Data maintenance :

▪ Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems

▪ Responsibility for monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement

Shared response of Material and Supplier strategy:

▪ Develop a material and supplier strategy: ▪ Conduct market analysis ▪ Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners ▪ Ensure that AUMOVIO requirements are reflected in the strategy ▪ Define and develop supplier portfolio for China in align with the global category
▪ Document and implement the strategy in all BAs and ensure sourcing execution ▪ Support GCM with BASE evaluation and creation of the strategic SCF

Support to Continous Cost reduction:

▪ Support re-design in cost reduction programs

▪ Drive improvement programs with suppliers

Required experience:

-Several years of experience in different purchasing functions;

-Experience in leadership position;

-Capability to negotiate and operate with different cultures;

-Experience in working with international teams on Purchasing issues;

-Understanding for different foreign cultures (NAFTA/ Asia, several European cultures);

Required knowledge:

Expert level:

-Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc.);

-Human relations skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking);

-Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures;

-Procurement Process and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge;

-Technical understanding of specific components;

-Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.;

Advanced level:

-Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques;

-Project management skills, tools and techniques;

-Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms (IATF 19649/ VDA 6.1);

-Risk Management

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