Commodity Purchasing Manager

About the role

Lear is seeking a Commodity Purchasing Manager to lead T&C purchasing commodities in Europe, supporting other regions. The role involves managing a team of 3 buyers, sourcing new and existing T&C components, negotiating, aligning with plants and program teams, and maintaining supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead T&C purchasing commodity in EU/Africa with a direct team of 3 Buyers
• Sourcing new and existing T&C components spend (RFQ, benchmarking, negotiations rounds, offers and scenarios analysis to present sourcing proposal, resourcing, annual negotiations and special initiatives)
• Manage T&C Directed Suppliers
• Support development for regional commodity and supplier strategies
• Align objectives, strategy, actions with plants and program teams
• Organize and coordinate supplier workshops with Engineering to work on cost reduction ideas and their execution
• Ensure sourcing / process and Global procedures compliance and Delegation of Authority (DOA) through SRM, SAP and Coupa systems
• Care for system maintenance with pricelist updates, supplier contracts, parts homologations and other daily administrative tasks
• Maintain good knowledge of the current market and future trends to support identification of alternative sources
• Support plants on logistic and quality problems with suppliers

Requirements

• Engineering or Business Administration degree
• Working experience 5+ years required in similar position (if possible automotive and T&C components)
• Very good negotiation Skills and Proficiency in the English language
• Good communication skills in a global organization, problem-solving and analysis skills, self-driven, highly trustable person, team player
• Good time and workload management
• MS Office Tools skills (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)