Buyer- Exterior commodity

Position Name: Buyer Exterior

Purpose of the position

This position is responsible for a market scouting of exterior components & supplier portfolio of the components, costs evaluations, sourcing and supplier nomination process for the components. Next ensure and manage procurement activities related to capacity planning, evaluating change requests, issuing contracts, issuing orders (tools and components), tracking parts. Ensuring activities are carried out in accordance with the VW group's procurement processes. Check and negotiate cost optimization during an entire project lifecycle.

Work Profile

• The individual would be responsible for Market scouting, creating supplier bidder list of exterior components, creating and releasing RFQ's
• Should be involved in Negotiation, Preparation and Presentation of sourcing in sourcing committees.
• Would require to Issue procurement contracts after the nomination and approvals, release and amend part and investment orders, create GRN - capacity agreements with supplier.
• Support supplier related escalations topics (R&D, Logistics, Quality and related functions).

Authority

• Market scouting, creating supplier bidder list of components, creating and releasing RFQ's.
• Negotiation, Preparation and Presentation of sourcing in sourcing committees.
• Issue procurement contracts after the nomination and approvals, release and amend part and investment orders, create GRN - capacity agreements with supplier.
• Support supplier related escalations topics (R&D, Logistics, Quality and related functions).

Skills Required

• Knowledge of exterior components supplier base & material price trends, manufacturing
• processes, product technical information of powertrain components
• Knowledge for procurement processes and systems, commercial-legal terms and their implication, QMS, EnMS.
• Communication, Negotiation, Analytical & Assertiveness skills.
• Reliability & flexibility
• Knowledge of MS office

Responsibilities and Tasks

Pre series Activities

• Explore new technologies of electric vehicles and a connection to SAVWIPL projects and
• evaluate potentials.
• Monitor raw material of exterior components and track it
• Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
• Evaluate and track costs of components and agree on real cost of the project (VSI)

Sourcing Activities

• Supplier identification and preparation of bidder list
• Registration of suppliers on Group purchase platform
• Gather inputs for releasing enquiry, Create and Release RFQs in system
• Follow-up offers from bidder, check completeness of offers (CBD's )
• Request for Targets for part price and investments.
• Do a plausibility check of offers based on cost estimation
• Price negotiation and get final offers from suppliers.
• Preparation of cost comparison based on agreed technical proposals
• Gather Market information / Group benchmark overview for the parts under sourcing
• Support a preparing of sourcing presentations with cost overview & cost plausibility ,
• alignment with group buyers.
• Present in Sourcing Committees (ISC / SSC /Pre-meeting / CSC Skoda MB & WOB or other
• VW Group Committees)
• In case of Non achievements of Targets prepare & Present options in TER
• (Targeterreichungsrunde - Target Approval Committee)
• Create and release Letter of Intent (LOI), Nomination Letter / eNA
• Get Sign off of Procurement Agreement / eNA with defined terms and conditions from
• suppliers.
• Support FS Team for Project Handover Documents and organize kick off meeting withsupplier and CFT (OA , R&D , logistics , SRM) in case of any escalations.
• Request for vendor code generation and enter nomination and sample availability dates in
• TEVON (Note 1 /Note 3)

Series Activity

• Ensure capacity planning in order to achieve production targets for respective responsible parts
• Series price settlements / claim settlements / Force-majeure
• Yearly price negotiations to achieve cost reduction targets as per agreed Business Plan and best possible costs level.
• Annual purchase order release / contracts
• Facilitate supplier related escalations topics (R&D , Logistics ,Quality and related functions)
• Scout for new potential suppliers and bring them on board with handholding
• Explore new technologies, alternate raw material, Value Engineering, proposals for cost reduction (SCOP and other similar committees & complexity reduction )
• Do global sourcing and evaluate saving potentials for material cost reduction
• Monitor raw material & Forex trends
• Annual asset verification for tooling at suppliers end
• QMS / EMS: Provide necessary support for the implementation / sustenance of Quality, Energy, Environment and Information Security Management Systems within the Commodity.

Tooling activities

• Process of Fund Request in AIP for releasing Tooling Order as per budget planning
• Release of Tooling Procurement Order on approval of Fund Request 10%
• Release of Procurement Orders in EBON / K-SRM , closing of supplier supplementary invoices for cost changes.
• Create GRN for tooling , Ensure Capitalization of tools

Change Management

• Evaluating Change Management Documents ( AEKO, AeA, MY Point etc. )
• Do plausibility check , negotiate the change requests , and provide evaluation in the requested format.
• Create & issue change request approval
• Coordination and agreement with suppliers for timelines and implementation.

Development activities

• Commitment meeting and timeline agreements for parts under direct purchase responsibility
• Tracking and reporting the development activities
• Follow-up meetings and supplier visit