Manager Commodity Indirect Procurement

JOB DESCRIPTION

Manager Commodity Indirect Procurement

What can you expect?
 

Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide, we produce and deliver automotive seating for all vehicle classes and all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design all the way to engineering and manufacturing – and into more than 25 million cars every year.

At Adient we are proud to offer hybrid working to our employees which involves being able to work remotely for up to 5 days per week.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all Adient Plants with the required goods, materials, equipment’s and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets.
• Design the perfect sourcing footprint for the commodity / sub commodity, define the roadmaps and make it happen
• Design optimal supply base
• Control and approval of all strategic advanced and operational purchasing activities and decisions for production within the commodity organization
• Coordination of purchasing targets with the managing board and the related departments
• Lead, motivate, support and develop purchasing staff members relating to the Commodity core teams
• Development, coordination and steering of purchasing strategies for all plants that consume commodities
• Control and improve purchasing controlling and cost analysis in order to guarantee savings- and cost tracking
• Support of proper Make or Buy decisions
• Support efforts concerning supply base rationalization and supplier development
• Guarantee compliance with BOS, PLUS, POS and SOX procedures
• Leverage of purchases across all ( C )BU’s
• Structuring and bundling of global and regional aspects within the Commodity organization
• Improvement of program-profitability as well as of all purchasing activities for the purposes of continuous improvement through global sourcing, long/life-time reductions etc.

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

• Commercial or technical degree
• Min. 2 - 5 years experience within commodity or strategic purchasing, ideally within automotive industry
• In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills
• Target driven with excellent priority setting skills
• Prepared to travel short trips (Europe)
• PC knowledge (MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
• Controlling and cost analysis knowledge
• Relevant SAP knowledge
• Fluent English

Which benefits do we offer?

• Base gross monthly salary starting from 2900 EUR. Our salary is fair and competitive and can be higher than the starting minimum written in the advert
• 13th salary
• Hybrid workplace principles from 0-5 days a week option working remotely
• Language courses
• Meal vouchers (fully paid by employer)
• Flexible working time, extra holiday entitlement
• Wedding allowance, childbirth allowance, jubilee allowance, housing allowance
• Referral bonus
• Health, safety and ergonomics events, training sessions
• Active life with colleagues full of various sports activities (swimming, yoga, tennis, volleyball etc.)
• Massage at workplace, modern relax areas and game room
• Coffee/Tea on the workplace

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dagmar Sováková on +421 910 828 746.

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