Mission:
Under the responsibility of Purchasing Director, Asia Pacific:
1.Assures the coherence of the purchasing activities with global purchasing strategy and requirement of production operation.
2.Develops and implements the commodity strategy of suppliers under own responsibility (responsibility of leader buyer).
3.Achieves the best commercial conditions including price, payment term, delivery term and other logistical or financial terms.
Responsibility:
1.To within Veoneer manage the development and lead implementation of the Global Commodity strategy (Sourcing strategy, Supplier strategy, Sourcing decisions, Price negotiations as commodity manager or lead-buyer, Capital budget plan and so on).
2.Support and promote Veoneer policies and standards (VS 310 Code of Conduct and Business Ethics, Q5 and so on)
3.Establish the future vision (Sourcing plans, supplier strategy, Component capacity, Cost reduction and so on)
4.Supplier Base Management (Selection of suppliers in supplier base, Pre-Qualification, Development (VSDP), Performance (VS51), Consolidation (or expansion), Working Capital and so on supplier database maintain)
5.Ensure the timely sourcing of components for local and global projects, follow the officialized sourcing strategy, and the established "should cost" analysis.
6.Responsible for assigned suppliers’ yearly price negotiation and ensure component standard prices are set up correctly in ERP systems per Purchase Control Manual and Head Office (VHO) policies.
7.Component’s engineering change management after SOP.
8.Risk management of supply chain.
9.Support local and global activities and targets as well as established plans for and drive material cost improvement (price negotiation and VEVA plan), supplier consolidation (or expansion), improvement of tooling cost and optimization of other investment for component capability and capacity, supplier performance improvement, material pull in and push out.
10.Collaborate with the respective assigned supplier quality and development or design engineers located at respective technical center or manufacturing site in “commodity team.”
11.Other related work assigned by leader.
Requirement:
1.Bachelor’s Degree or above in mechanical, material, mechatronics, or other fields (when there is enough working/purchasing experience in related commodities).
2.Three years’ direct material purchasing experience in automotive industry. (With both of mechanical and electronic (PCBA) components’ purchasing experience preferred.).
3.Good written and oral ability in English required.
4.Have commodity knowledge and experience, commercial knowledge and experience (The skill and capability including price negotiation, sourcing, and contracting, etc.). Have price negotiation skill. Have risk management skill.
5. Good communication skill, enthusiasm, outgoing and good logical thinking ability.
6. Good command of MS Office skill.