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.

JOB TITLES REPORTING TO THIS POSITION:

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS (including education & years of experience):

•    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