Commodity Buyer Leader (m/f), Brières

"Technical Perfection and automotive passion" is what defines Faurecia. We design, engineer and provide the best in technology, systems and services for automobile makers in every major market on all five continents. If you share our ambition for technical perfection and our passion for all things automotive, Faurecia has a career for you.

"Faurecia, a driving force…for your professional growth."

Essential responsibilities and duties

The commodity buyer Leader is responsible for deploying the commodity strategy for its assigned commodities. The role of the Commodity Buyer is to manage relationship / negotiation with suppliers, pilot the utilization of supplier panel in programs and series production during sourcing, and ensure supplier performance.

The main missions of the role are:

• Structure the panel
• Participate in the definition and the implementation of purchasing panel policy for assigned commodities
• Manage the strategy with any necessary data’s (benchmarks in the market etc...)
• Manage supplier selection of his/her segment/s of the commodity and deploys it within the region
• Manage relationship / negotiation with his/her suppliers supported by the Division / Region Commodity Manager
• Ensure that the strategic panel is implemented in the Development phase (Supplier Nomination Committees)
• Monitor and Manage productivity performance for supplier perimeter through cross-functional teamwork in the plants under his/her responsibility
• Be involved in the kick off in program phase to prepare the start of Production. Lead transfers meetings with Program Buyers at the take-over
• Manage Serial Buyers
• Responsible of Engineering Change Requests within his/her perimeter
• Manage and drive productivity action plans, Conduct productivity workshops at supplier facilities (Lean, Octoplus)
• Fix the rules of productivity sharing between the suppliers and Faurecia
• Manage and drive supplier quality and delivery performance
• Manage insolvencies of suppliers and steer corrective action plan
• Support plants to troubleshoot operational issues

Qualifications

• Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Business.
• Nice to have: Professional Purchasing Qualification

Experience :

• Minimum 5 years experience in purchasing in an industrial environment (serial life or program)
• Experience of successfully managing and negotiating contracts

Nice to have: Automotive experience would be an advantage