BCS Automotive Interface Solutions offers great opportunities. It combines the experience of a long-standing automotive supplier, which has existed for almost 70 years and employs 3,500 people worldwide, with the exciting challenges of a new company, as it has recently become independent.

The momentum of the automotive industry and the multinational team around the world completes a very interesting work environment. Maybe your future? - Do it!

Job Purpose and Main Objectives

• Support and Execution of the Commodity strategy
• Improvement of Cost, Quality and Delivery
• Sourcing and nomination of new components to strategic suppliers
• Monitoring the market and deriving actions and adjustments for the strategy and supply base out of that
• Acting as escalation level for quality and delivery issues

Success Factors (knowledge, skills, attitude essential to perform the role)

• Cost, Quality and Delivery improvement knowledge
• Experience in sourcing of new products
• Price- and contract negotiations
• Successful resourcing projects
• Basic technical understanding and logical thinking

Job duties

• Supporting the development of the regional Commodity Strategy, including cost reduction initiatives, introduction of new products, global benchmarking and initiatives for improvement of the quality
• Analysis of products in regards to quality, cost and delivery performance
• Sourcing and nomination of new business to strategic suppliers based on the BCS purchasing guidelines
• Driving of In-Sourcing and Re-Sourcing activities
• Escalation level for critical supply situations, production bottlenecks, and quality issues
• Analysis of the global procurement market and world economy as well as benchmarking the competitiveness of the current supply base
• Price-and contract- negotiations with suppliers as well as annual price negotiations
• Responsibility for identification and execution of cost reduction initiatives through the organization
• Analysis and calculation of components, for target setting
• Securing competitiveness of suppliers by leading efficiency- and improvement-workshops

• Educational Background & Job-Related Experience
• Bachelor´s degree in Economics or Engineering or as industrial clerk with extensive (>6 years) purchasing experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Automotive Purchasing, preferred in Commodity Management
• Technical understanding of production processes and manufacturing
• Economic and target oriented way of thinking, including high analytical skills as well as a structured way of working
• Assertive, with excellent negotiation skills, convincing communication skills and team oriented
• Willingness to perform and to travel, high flexibility and resilience
• Sovereign knowledge of MS office especially Excel
• Basic SAP knowledge
• Fluent in English language and preferable in German language

Shape the future with us at BCS Automotive Interface Solutions, where your expertise and passion make a difference!

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