Senior Buyer - Prototype

Your Key Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, coordinate and monitor business relations with suppliers supporting Schaeffler's Prototype needs and requirements. 
• Support the creation of market analyses and implement category strategies.
• Define and implement profitable purchasing strategies and effective negotiation tactics for the assigned area, ensuring cross-functional and cross-divisional alignment.
• Monitor the supply market continuously and manage and optimize the supplier portfolio to ensure quality, cost efficiency, on-time-delivery, sustainability and compliance with terms of contracts as well as legal regulations.
• Coordinate and steer assigned category including purchase price planning and define saving projects.
• Single point of contact for relationship management/dispute resolution between supplier and plant.
• Lead the prototype commodity and support purchasing manager / director in strategic planning processes and project management.
• Monitor costs and status of negotiations, applicable prototype exclusive contracts, and percent of spend under contract, while maintaining and ensuring agreements remain active and in place.  
• Develop and drive price reductions within the commodity and negotiate with supplier to acceptable pricing levels and onboarding.
• Secure required approvals for awards and issue purchase orders to the supply base.
• Manage new projects, Prototype purchases, purchase orders, and timing for new launches for all phases prior to PPAP in support of the respective Project Purchasers. 

Your Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 5 years of purchasing experience.
• Strong negotiation, project management and problem-solving skills.
• Basic mechanical and electronics comprehension.
• Excellent personal computer skills with a focus on Microsoft Office suites.
• Blueprint comprehension.

Preferred:

• Material requirements planning experience.