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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