Commodity Senior Buyer

We are looking for a Commodity Senior Buyer for our Technical Center in Valls, Spain. This role focuses on commodity purchasing for T&C component products in Europe with support for other regions, for E-Systems.

Responsibilities :

• Support the development and implementation of T&C component strategy and own day-to-day actions
• Single point of contact for suppliers and cross-functional teams for all T&C related activities in Europe
• Develop new commodity suppliers according to strategy and monitor their implementation within Lear
• Achieve commodity savings targets by negotiating and implementing Supply Cost Technical Optimization (SCTO)
• Support the entire product life cycle from the procurement phase of new customer programs through mass production to end of life
• Lead T&C component commodity initiatives for assigned vendors, including sourcing new and existing T&C component spend (RFQs, benchmarking, negotiation rounds, bid and scenario analysis to source proposal submissions, resources, annual negotiations and special initiatives, etc.)
• Management of T&C Directed suppliers
• Support the development of regional commodity and supplier strategies
• Align goals, strategies, actions with plants, program teams and commodity manager
• Organize and coordinate supplier workshops with Engineering to work on cost reduction ideas and implement them
• Ensure alignment of resources/processes and global procedures and delegation of authority (DOA) through SRM, SAP and Coupa systems
• System maintenance with price list updates, supplier contracts, parts approvals and other day-to-day administrative tasks
• Maintaining a good knowledge of the current market and future trends to support the identification of alternative sources
• Support plants on logistics and quality issues with suppliers

Requirements :

• Engineering or Business Administration degree preferred with work experience (if possible for automotive and T&C components), not required
• Very good negotiation skills and knowledge of the English language
• Good communication skills in a global organization, ability to solve problems and analysis, independent, highly trustworthy person, team player
• Good time and workload management