Job Details
Commodity Buyer Americas
2025-12-29 Rochling Automotive USA LLP Duncan,SC
Description:
- Identifies savings initiatives within the commodity and drive prioritized initiatives
- Verifies that RFQ documentation is accurate and complete, allowing suppliers to provide accurate quotations and to build to specifications
- Identifies and selects vendor to procure requisitioned commodities, meeting criteria such as price, quantity, quality
- Obtains and analyzes quotes to determine best value, then recommends to respective Global Commodity
- Manager solutions based on data and facts collected
- Enables competition, incl. potentials from BCC sourcing
- Responsible for planning and execution of price negotiations, incl. change management activities, commercial target setting and achievement
- Owns the relationship to key vendors and cooperates to develop them into strategic partners
- One face to the supplier approach - acts as Foreign minister
- Takes lifecycle responsibility for affected parts in the Commodity - from strategic sourcing (commodity strategies, managing RFQ processes and nomination, etc.), operational procurement (identification of needs, POs, etc.) to supplier management (contract management, performance management)
- Supervises capacities at suppliers
- Scouting of innovations (technologies/ supplier), delivering market input to the internal strategic planning departments
- Ensures compliance to corporate sourcing policy and procedures;
- Maintains standard work documentation