Professional Background / Qualification / Work Experience required:
- Mechanical or Electrical Diploma or Trade Certificate
- 5 Years working experience with Jigs and Fixtures or special purposes machinery in the automotive industry
- Intermediate level Excel, Word & PowerPoint skills required
- Ability to create & present reports in Excel & PowerPoint
- Experience in Procurement of Indirect Materials & Services, Tooling & Equipment, cost management, contract management and vendor relations will be advantageous.
Technical Expertise:
- Understanding of Mechanical design standards.
- Ability to interpret drawings and technical specifications.
- Familiar with goods and services that are used in a manufacturing environment.
- Project Management & tracking according to project milestones and supplier timing plans.
- Supplier Development – new and existing suppliers.
Job Description
The position incumbent is accountable for the following:
- Participates in the creation of the commodity strategies and ensures implementation in respective region.
- Market screening and supplier identification. Perform supplier audits.
- Onboarding of suppliers: set-up necessary contracts like NDA, Code of Conduct, negotiate frame agreement incl. bonus, payment terms etc.
- Explain technical standards and provide constant coaching to suppliers.
- Develop suppliers based on SWOT, supplier rating and supplier capability. Request action plans to ensure supplier meets expectations.
- Support order processing as interface between supplier and ordering plant (Procurement and stakeholder department). Remark: negotiation lead remains with Plant Procurement and design approval with ME of ordering plant.
- Organize and moderate project kick-off meetings.
- Proactive time and quality tracking based on timeline and milestone checks.
- Ensure fulfillment of all topics out of Specification of Requirements.
- Pre-acceptance at supplier’s site based on existing buy-off procedure (checklist).
- Problem solving and regular feedback loops with supplier, Procurement and ME.
- Participates in networks across Procurement and other related functions e.g. ME.
- Coordinate further activities like Supplier/- Tech days, VA/VE activities etc. with Global Procurement, Engineering functions or other engaged functions as required.
- Establish & maintain supplier panel for the assigned commodity. Actively search for and facilitates the introduction of potential new suppliers (supplier onboarding).
- Apply all required IT-Tools for procurement (SLM, Softcon, MaCo, CDB etc.).
- Evaluation of supplier quotes (completeness, plausibility, suitability, competitiveness, etc.).
- Lead supplier negotiations (annual and re-negotiations) in regards to pricing, payment terms, Incoterms, delivery frequency, logistics cost, capacity monitoring, program and customer specific requirements, etc. and execute supplier benchmarks.
- Drive supplier contract management for new and existing suppliers (send, receive, assess, lead negotiation, finalize supplier contracts and store in designated databases).
- Support ME & other functions in the course of technical / operational clarifications and SOR definitions towards suppliers.
- Nomination letters and letters of refusal to suppliers.
- Evaluate cost down potentials and drive VA+VE activities à update MaCo.
- Holds close cooperation with supplier development to establish supplier ratings for indirect commodities in Supplier Scorecard. Monitor supplier scorecards and take action in case of non-conformances.
- Participate in Sourcing Board & presenting potential / new suppliers.
- RFQ’s, Purchase orders and Nomination Letters for Indirect Materials incl. Machinery & Equipment & services are transmitted to and expedited from approved suppliers.
- Price comparisons and proposals are prepared for review and approval.
- Indirect Materials (incl. machinery & equipment) & services to company are supplied without disruption.
- Key Performance Indicators are met as detailed in the annual PDA.
- Administration, record keeping & updating of purchasing related documentation, systems and databases are effectively conducted.
- Prepare and track annual indirect material procurement budgets.
- Other Indirect Procurement duties are conducted effectively as required and assigned.
- Participate in BU / Global Indirect calls as representative from South Africa and to action related strategies and tasks.