Job Overview

Supports the development and execution of commodity strategy for the procurement team and drives the leading indicators like savings pipeline.

Your main tasks:

The Strategic analyst is responsible for defining and implementing regional sourcing strategies for the relevant commodities and suppliers in order to reach the respective sourcing targets in delivery, productivity, cost, and quality. Moreover, this position is responsible for supplier negotiations, supplier capacity management, and supplier compliance with relevant TE requirements.

• Create a supplier sourcing strategy, under strong consideration of customer needs, that defines strategic suppliers into grow, fix and exit suppliers and maintains product footprint, incl. “make or buy”-analysis. 
• Drive the attainment of relevant procurement KPI’s, incl. Material Productivity (CMP), Lead time performance, delivery (STR/STC), and Quality.
• Responsible for improving material productivity, CMP, TEBIT and WAV analysis
• Responsible for contracting of supplier commercial agreements, incl. supply agreements, VMI, EDI, consignment, Scheduling Agreements frame order review, blanket PO), Ensure MOQ optimization for purchased components and
• Responsible for preparing RFQ’s, awarding new business and negotiation all raw materials, components, and tooling
• Manage the Supplier Footprint, incl. setup of new suppliers, reducing number of supplier and resourcing activities
• Collect and maintain capabilities and capacities of suppliers to avoid constraints
• Accountable for info record accuracy and communicate relevant data to tactical planner, incl. lead time, price and MOQ
• Responsible for conducting QBR’s (business review) with strategic suppliers and the drive of respective corrective actions
• Responsible for calculating impact and getting the PIA approval.
• Ensure data on OV tools is captured and delivered to finance.
• Ensure NPI alignment to global sourcing commodity strategy and limit number of new suppliers
• Conduct risk assessments for new suppliers and legacy suppliers not done yet.
• Ensure that all suppliers meet TE requirements for compliance (RoHs, Reach, conflict minerals, supplier portal usage)
• Drive the usage of the of the Supplier Portal, provide supplier onboarding.
• Manage the tool life cycle at suppliers
• Support the planners in the following tasks: inventory management components, manage outside product shelflife (Plant/DC), and block invoices

Your ideal background:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics or Business Administration or equivalent
• 5+ years’ experience in procurement as buyer, including experience in preparation of negotiations.
• Sourcing experience for relevant commodities is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continues improvement attitude.
• Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to work in a matrix environment with multi-cultural teams.
• Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends.
• Negotiation skills
• Knowledge of regional and global supplier base for relevant commodities
• Advanced knowledge in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
• High level of autonomy and self-management, capable of working independently.
• Fluent English at negotiation level

Competencies