Procuring Globally Electrical Parts For A Manufacturer Of Heat Exchangers

Daily rate

By arrangement

Expenses

plus expenses

Project duration

as of now - 31.08.2022

Deployment country

Germany

Deployment city

Primarily Remote & NRW

Required availability

100 %

Industry

Mechanical & plant engineering

Function

Purchasing, Logistics & SCM

Service

Operative vacancy

Our client, a leading global manufacturers of heat exchangers with roughly 30 production sites, is looking for a Global Commodity Manager (m/f/d) – ad interim - for Electrical Parts, procuring these items for the entire group.

In general, the mission for the position is to provide the best value, highest quality, and lowest total cost supply chain solution to secure a sustainable competitiveness advantage. The annual spend is about 43 Mio. €.

The supply base profile is quite scattered with a significant share of the spend still locally driven. This represents both a challenge and an opportunity especially when it comes to best cost country sourcing.

Overall Responsibilities

• Assure the deployment and execution of the objectives and directives assigned to you by the BU CPO.
  
• Understand the Market evolution: threats, opportunities and technological trends
  
• Assure the necessary input and support to the local and BU Purchasing organizations in the operational requirements of the affected plants (budget preparation, ERP maintenance, plant objectives, reporting, projects, supplier issues, etc.)
  
• Participate actively as required in the Procurement activities of the Group
  
• Assure that the necessary commodity sourcing activities and processes required by the different projects in development are launched and completed on time.
  
• Lead the selection and nomination of new suppliers until final approval according to the established decision levels.
  
• Lead the purchasing activities related to new contracts or modifications of existing ones according to the established decision levels.
  
• Foster and lead the initiatives related to the improvement of the cost and efficiency of the Materials, Components, Investments and Services used to meet the company’s yearly and long-term objectives
  
• Assure that the correct level and content of technical and financial information is available throughout all sales bidding and purchasing sourcing processes
  
• Etc.
  

Personnel accountability

6 Employees

Budget accountability

43 million Euro

• Very experienced purchasing professional (m/f/d) with experience in cross plant commodity management (metals parts would be a plus) in a medium sized, international/global organization, preferably in mechanical engineering environment
  
• Purpose driven individual, target oriented and used to work under pressure
  
• Proactive person to permanently look out for improvement opportunities through product and/or supplier changes
  

Linguistic proficiency