Plant Purchasing Specialist - Plant Buyer

Work under the general direction of Regional Head of Operations Center, responsible for development and implementation of strategy and negotiations relating to supply and pricing of Indirect Materials & Capital Goods for the location and align with other North American locations as well as the Global Purchasing Organizations.  Long term objective to establish optimum internal customer support, motivated supply base through pooling volumes, and use of common strategies in order to maximize contributions to the operating profit of the plant as well as the North American Region.

Principal Accountability:

• Purchase Management – planning, forecasting, source evaluation, negotiation, implementation and commodity investigation.  Strategies and actions defined together with Corporate Purchasing, focused on the activities within location/Plant with annual purchase spend over >5T€ .
• Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities and alternatives, build relevant strategy together with Corporate Purchasing while ensuring agreements of all parties (Plants, Engineering, etc.).
• Supplier Management - maintenance of service contracts and suppliers. Control of information flow to suppliers and negotiations on all issues together with Corporate Purchasing. 
• Provide support for existing tools and best practices, as well as continuous education of Purchasing Policies and Procedures to internal stakeholders.
• Adjustment and optimization of existing applications and reports according to requirements of Corporate Purchasing including interface management to existing tools and solutions
• Customer satisfaction responsibilities including: representing indirect purchasing during plant visits and/or home plant environment, as well as developing and implementing actions to support individual plant locations.

• Bachelor's degree: Business or Industrial Engineering
• More than 3 years internal or external experience within the industry
• Advanced  English
• Negotiation Experience
• Knowledge of Sourcing
• Project/Team Management Experience
• SAP Experience
• Works Unsupervised
• Well Organized and Analytical

At Continental we are committed to building an inclusive and discrimination-free ecosystem in Mexico, these principles are rooted in our corporate philosophy and culture. Therefore, it is totally forbidden to request a pregnancy or HIV test as part of our selection processes.

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Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.