Purchasing

COMPANY PROFILE:

CNH Industrial is a global capital goods company specializing in equipment and services for Agriculture and Construction. The Company operates commercially through its brand portfolio which includes Case IH, New Holland Agriculture, Steyr, CASE and New Holland Construction Equipment. More information can be found on the corporate website: www.cnhindustrial.com

PRIMARY FUNCTION:
The Buyer Specialist is responsible for leading the team that manages the relationships with suppliers, build the strategies with the key folks of the company and ensures business continuity to serve the Using location.
The Buyer responsibilities include the sourcing management and the total acquisition cost management.
–    Develop the strategy of the Fasteners Perimeter (Reduction of # supplier & proliferation plant level) for both Harvesting and Tractor production lines.
–    Manage the external company in charge of the purchase requisition and sourcing activity following KPI as Ageing and Purchase requisition backlog.
–    Support internal customer for business stability.
–    Collaborate and coordinate with plants to develop kanban activity with the target to implement 3PL company capable to manage multiple sources of suppliers.
–    Develop and deploy the strategy plant by plant with support of external company to manage the sourcing.
–    Manage suppliers’ relationship to have the parts on time.
–    Perimeter: Fasteners components for all plant of AG segment covering $46 Mio APV, 136 suppliers and around 9000 PN to manage. 
–    Manages the decomplexity through rationalization plan, plant by plant.
–    Drive the localization plan.
–    Supports function for new product launch initiatives while developing and implementing cost reduction and sourcing strategies, leading to improved quality, technology and timely delivery performance. 
–    Drives, forecasts and reports economic savings performance, negotiates price reductions, increases and long-term agreements, market test and award new business to maximize leverage, analyzes various reports to capture opportunities.
 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

SOURCING MANAGEMENT

– Supplier selection for new product, focused on: 
– Total Cost (piece price, tooling, transportation, packaging, etc.)
– Quality & Timing
– Key Stake Holder Management
– Alignment of all key stakeholder’s objectives during the sourcing process

TOTAL ACQUISITION COST MANAGEMENT

– Identify risks and opportunities for the total cost of current products
– Forecast budgetary impacts of risks and opportunities
– Raw material & Economic impacts
– Logistics, Transportation, Packaging Impacts
– Currency & Tariff impacts
– Capacity impacts
– Create mitigation plan for risk & implementation plan for opportunity
– Resourcing & Market test current product
– Technical cost reductions
– Tracking raw material indices
– Best Place to buy 
– Spend analysis (Dual source, volumes, MOQ, etc.)
–  Lead negotiations for total cost improvement of current products
– Raw material & Commercial using back leverage (MKT test, new business, resourcing, etc.)
– Lead cross-functional activities for total cost improvement projects with internal customers and support functions
– Resourcing & Technical cost reductions
– Change/Improve logistic flows

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (SUPPLY BASE)

–  Supply/Relation Champion

– Escalation to resolve supply base issues

– Product cost disputes & Invoicing issues
– Quality concerns (KM0 and Warranty)
– Delivery delays & Product development timing delays
– Contract Negotiations
– Long term purchasing agreements
– General terms & conditions
– Raw material indexation agreements
– Warranty agreements
– Co-development agreements
– Non-disclosure agreements
– World class manufacturing agreements
– Compliance agreements

PURCHASING STRATEGY MANAGEMENT

– Define/create interim and long term purchasing strategies to secure the supply of products
– Lowest cost, Acceptable quality, On-time delivery
– Best in class product innovation and development
– Identify product innovation & industry trends
– Identify market demands & competitive benchmark

PURCHASING ADMINISTRATION
–  Create purchasing price list and contracts in the GPP system
– Update contracts and part number changes after potential technical changes, accomplished negotiations, carry over of p/n to new platform etc.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

– Master’s degree in economics, Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or Finance preferred.
– Fluent English
– Excellent knowledge in Excel and the Office package
– Relevant product/commodity knowledge 
– Knowledge of local supplier’s market for the relevant product/commodity
– Minimum 5 years’ experience in the position

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

– Negotiation skills to achieve results
– Ability to get the consensus of the internal customer.
– Able to independently make some decisions that also affect the team
– Good communication skills
– Good team work orientation

– Sense of initiative