Indirect Commodity Buyer and Integration Project Leader
4 weeks ago
Job Description:
Indirect Commodity Buyer : Report to the local Purchasing manager
Develop requests for quotations, analyze supplier responses, ne..
Job Description:
Indirect Commodity Buyer : Report to the local Purchasing manager
- Develop requests for quotations, analyze supplier responses, negotiate according to overall strategy and implement supplier business contracts for regional and national indirect commodities.
- Collaborate with Safran Purchasing (worldwide) teams to implement purchasing strategies.
- Define a Local Target Purchasing Strategy for the commodities in charge
- Develop road map through analyzing the spend and identifying cost reduction opportunities.
- Ensure productivity reporting (savings) in Safran Purchasing tools.
- Ensure all Purchase Orders are processed in a timely manner and at the best price available to meet the requester‘s time frames.
- Resolve issues concerning delivery delays, damaged goods, incorrect merchandise, or problems in billing and payment as necessary.
- Establish records and review documents for compliance with purchasing criteria.
- Coordinate delivery schedules with internal teams, including long lead purchases.
- Ensure that purchases are cost-effective and meet quality requirements.
- Monitor the performance of supplier to ensure continued quality and timely shipments.
- Drive improvements on delivery, cost, and quality of materials from suppliers.
- Collaborate and communicate with internal stakeholders such as Finance, Internal Control, Supply chain, Planning, Quality, Production, Engineering teams to drive successfully purchasing projects.
Integration Project Leader : report to the Head of Safran Purchasing APAC
- As a shared services, Indirect Purchasing hub will need to integrate the new activities of SAFRAN in Singapore.
- Work and collaborate with the stakeholders of the project (Management, IT, Finance, users, French team)
- Collect and analyze the spent by commodity
- Coordinate with IT for the ERP connections
- Analyze and establish the planning of integration
- Update and lead the weekly meeting report progress with highlights, status, blockers, etc …
- Set up some KPIs
- Coordinate with buyers on their commodities (spent, suppliers panel strategy, savings actions)
Required Skills:
- Detailed and possess Organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple tasks and concurrent projects simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal skills to develop good working relationships with suppliers and internal customers.
- Ability to adopt a win-win approach to negotiation.
- Self-started individual able to work both independently and with a team, within a process driven environment.
- Ability to adopt a corporate perspective.
Job Knowledge and Expertise
- Demonstrate knowledge of the procurement and supply chain industry
- Have computer skills in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word & Outlook
- Knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP is a plus
- Knowledge of English language
- Technical knowledge or Engineering background is a plus
- Customer Orientation
- Seek to understand customer needs and expectations; understand and deliver customer value; promote open and frequent communications with management, suppliers and customers; and develop partnerships.
- Analyze a cost breakdown and Total Cost Ownership
- Pro-active in problem solving
- Ability to work in a change environment
- Knowledge in Power BI and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a plus
Education and Experience:
- Diploma or Bachelors Degree in Purchasing or equivalent experience
- Preferably with aviation experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a buyer position
- Ideally already worked in new project coordination
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