Category Execution Buyer

1 tydzień temu

Kraków, Lesser Poland TE Connectivity Corporation Pełny etat

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At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Strategic Sourcing Teams develop and implement multi-year strategies for assigned commodities, suppliers and parts/services to achieve established goals in supplier quality, delivery, price and service. They align strategy and execution with cross-functional partners such as engineering, manufacturing, product management and functional owners. They execute the competitive bid, negotiation, contracting processes and/or technical continuous improvement for assigned commodities or services; collaborate across Business Units and cross-regions for optimal TE leverage. Our teams demonstrate a high level of expertise in procurement competencies (business/supply chain acumen, negotiation, sourcing strategy development and execution, global savvy, and project and product lifecycle management) and ensure results are delivered compliant with TE policies and procedures.

In order to drive efficient back-office operations, TE Connectivity wants to establish insourced regional shared service centers (*) to support centralized processing of selected procurement functions such as PR/PO processing, but also Category Execution and Sourcing.

The Indirect Procurement CE will play a key role in the insourcing process by collecting and organizing all information gathered through the knowledge transfer received from the supplier currently used to perform those activities.

(*) PSC: Procurement Shared Center

Position Overview:

This position will report to the PSC CE Team Leader and be a member of the PSC teams focusing on all the aspects of tactical and strategic procurement for his/her assigned commodities.

Key attributes of this role include:
  • Experience in indirect commodity support and strategic sourcing
  • Experience in at least one of the commodity categories: CAPEX, MRO, Facilities, HR, Corporate Services or IT
  • Good understanding of end-to-end S2P processes and associated technology platforms
  • Excellent organizational and analytical skills, solid problem solving and detail oriented
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work with deadlines
  • Ability to work in culturally diverse teams with many levels of personnel.
  • Experience in a shared service center if possible
Key Responsibilities:
  • Support migration of Indirect Procurement processes from EMEA countries to Krakow and prepare Indirect Procurement related process documentation (process maps and work instructions)
  • Become a Subject Matter Expert for assigned commodities
  • Data or requirement gathering, market desk research, TCO calculation, benchmarking
  • Organizing weekly regional commodity calls with Commodity Management and buyers
  • Go-To person in case buyers have commodity specific questions
  • Support and partner with Commodity Management towards strategic projects and business planning and forecasting (prioritization of opportunities based on Saving Potential v/s Effort Required)
  • CE's are expected to help identify projects through spend analytics and opportunity identification
  • CE's manage strategic and sourcing projects as assigned by Commodity Management and upon approval of project charter detailing scope, milestones, objectives, timeline
  • Manage end-to-end own sourcing project from ideation to contract execution and ordering
  • Sourcing activities to be based on the guidelines in the commodity playbook and other relevant documentation (Standard Operating Procedures)
  • Set selection criteria for the suppliers to be invited in RFX's
  • Understand suppliers and their capabilities
  • Enforce use and acceptance of TE contract templates with all suppliers
  • Collecting supplier quotations
  • Comparing supplier offered prices and proposals
  • Calculate savings as per the quotations
  • Agree on which supplier to select with Commodity Management and/or Stakeholders
  • Report productivity in relevant system
  • Manage own contracts (redlining, alignment with stakeholders, negotiation with suppliers, interaction with Legal dept.) up to final execution
  • Ensure executed contracts are properly uploaded in the contract repository
  • Support implementing new contracts, and uploading metadata to contract database
  • Participate in Global/Regional Commodity supplier review and internal meetings with TE Stakeholders as required
  • Provide commodity specific training to new joiners (buyers)
  • Ensure compliance with applicable TE policies
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the function, ensuring that improvements are incorporated in the work routine
  • Build relationship with key stakeholders including suppliers
  • Build strong relationship with Commodity Management & Buyers
  • Attend team meetings and trainings as required.
Qualifications and skills:
  • Good Experience in Indirect Procurement (5+ years)
  • Previous experience in Strategic Sourcing preferred
  • Good of MS office; very good Excel and other relevant tools for the function
  • SAP PR2, S/4
  • Good communication and organization skills
  • Contract Management Literacy
  • Very good English language skills in speech and writing + additional European language on top of Polish preferred
  • Diversified Industrial Products/Manufacturing industry experience preferred
  • Good command of other languages is a very important asset
Business Competencies
  • Eager to learn
  • Agile
  • Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
  • Able to deal with complexity
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Good analytics
  • Positive attitude
  • Team player, hands-on attitude
  • Customer Focus

Remote work possible for candidates with TE Procurement experience not based in the country or the city referred to in this job offering. Do not hesitate to contact our HR team if interested

Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

Location:

KRAKOW, MA, PL, _

City: KRAKOW

State: MA

Country/Region: PL

Travel: Less than 10%

Requisition ID: 130423

Function: Procurement

Job Segment: Strategic Sourcing, Contract Manager, Supply Chain, Compliance, Product Manager, Operations, Legal
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