Purchasing Manager

1. General Management and Strategy:

▪ manage and coordinate all local purchasing activities for the plant 
▪ translate plant’s purchasing strategy into action plans and ensure implementation
▪ contribute to strategic and operative planning of the plant (e.g. with respect to investments, capacity and headcount planning)
▪ ensure the achievement of purchasing targets according to internal and external customer expectations
▪ initiate and implement continuous improvement activities by applying CBS methods and training measures 
▪ interface and local support to BU or corporate purchasing processes and teams (e.g. reporting of savings, payment terms, material price development, reporting of raw material forecast, etc.) 
▪ participate in and/or steer local purchasing related and cross-functional projects
▪ conduct employee dialogues, personnel development and coaching

2. Financial Management:

▪ prepare, review and manage the budget and forecast of purchasing cost center
▪ ensure timely submission of financial data to controlling
▪ implement and conduct activities according to the budget established
▪ ensure that the financial goals are met 

3. Purchasing:

▪ responsible for entire purchasing process of production and non-production material (PM/NPM; depending on ZEBRA status, target structure – may apply depending on BU conditions) i.e. local production materials (not used by any other CT or Continental plant), merchandize goods, NPM up to 100.000€ and investments up to 100.000€ according to standards
▪ determinate relevant purchasing statutory and regulatory requirements in the country of receipt, the country of shipment and the customer-identified country of destination and ensure fulfillment
▪ select suppliers and document sourcing decision to ensure compliant processes 
▪ negotiate and contract with suppliers (e.g. prices, incoterms and payment terms, Quality Assurance Agreements) as well as issuing purchase order 
▪ perform supplier development, release and support in supplier auditing (including controlling and evaluation of supplier measures) 
▪ dispose amount and delivery date of purchased material and investments

4. Training and Coaching:

▪ ensure the availability of qualified employees for the purchasing function in cooperation with plant HR
▪ initiate and control the continuous qualification of purchasing employees in cooperation with plant HR

5. Monitoring and Reporting:

▪ ensure purchasing performance (KPI) monitoring and reporting (e.g. delivery performance, complain rate, soft facts, etc.) in cooperation with plant controlling
▪ ensure supplier performance monitoring (e.g. delivery reliability to production line of external service providers)
▪ initiate and control measures to improve purchasing performance

6. Reporting and coordinate:

▪ Purchasing data Qingdao status reporting
▪ Budget and FC data setup and update
▪ Coordinate all Gloup Purchasing activity within Qingdao plant
▪ Coordinate with OESL PM Purchasing and OESL NPM Purchasing

1. Bachelor degree or above

2. 5+ years Purchasing experience

3. 3+ years management experience

4. Purchasing process, ERP Process,supplier management

5. Good organizational and communicational skills

6. Ability to lead a team, to communicate, assertiveness, skill in negotiations

7. Comfortable at presenting at both management and shop floor level

8. Good knowledge of English (spoken and written)

9. Automotive industry experience preferred

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