SITE MRO BUYER (Greer-South Carolina, US) chez None

Activities

The MRO buyer can take responsibilities in coordination activities. As such, in addition of his assignment, the buyer may coordinate some management activities :

• Drives the coordination with the buyers to provide good feedback on the activity, deploy the business knowledge and provide a forum for discussion and exchanges, fostering a trust climate conducting to  best practices, performance and achievement and motivation.
• Supports and drive the team members in line with the objectives
• Assesses the team members in terms of skills and performance
• Participates to the recruitment process and yearly assessment
• Manages the activities in line with the POAE governance rules, purchasing policy and in the respect of the processes in place. Is responsible for the good use of POAE information system tool.
• Consolidates the performance and report the team activity and achievements to the Plant Manager and the BU/Operations MRO manager.
• Manages the activities in line with the Company governance rules, purchasing policy and in the respect of the processes in place.

• Is the owner of the plant supply base: is accountable for the local supply base and evaluate it through a vendor rating process once a year.
• Is responsible for the risk management with the support of the Finance department (financial health of suppliers, penetration rate, …)
• Compares the MRO costs and purchasing conditions with the ones of the other OP sites – Benchmark the data and identify opportunities of improvement
• Contributes to the plants synergies, developing the conditions with the other buyers to leverage the volumes and optimize the costs
• Manages the supply base relationships according to OP purchasing policy. Solve the issues with the suppliers
• Follows and reports the MRO performance through the standard KPIs. Commit on savings. Reports monthly and declare the savings achieved in the respect of the processes and rules in place.
• Leads the negotiation with the suppliers: Ensures a fair competition between suppliers. Makes sure 3 competitors at least compete to provide best technical solution and lowest landed cost.
• Manages the Purchasing requests flow and launch the RFQ process for the plant.
• Prepares the sourcing recommendations and present them in sourcing.
• After sourcing approval, manages the ordering process in the respect of the law, in  line with the legal constraints and obligations and OP policy.
• Manages the plant contracts and implement, for the plant, the global contracts managed by the lead buyer.
• Optimizes the order to pay process, proposing solutions for recurrent purchases.
• Manages the order to pay process, tracking the supplier activities to be managed up to full achievement and payment of the supplier
• Promotes the technical savings proposed by the suppliers
• Takes part and lead the internal working groups for technical savings identification or problem solving.

KPIs and main deliverables

• MRO KPIS (Commodities productivities, quality issues, number of suppliers, right first time invoicing, sourcing in compliance with target)

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain management, preferably in an automotive or manufacturing environment.
• Experience with MRO categories and supplier management is highly desirable.