Supervises a team of buyers and the process for the acquisition of products for one or more product groups.

Job Requirements

ACTIVITIES:

- Ability to understand root cause of quality issue and facilitate communication with Regional Management, supplier, and BU’s for resolutions.
- Understanding of Supplier Approval Process and relationships of related functions to ensure compliance.
- Understanding of strategies, risk and opportunities within assigned commodities as developed by the Regional Commodity Managers.
- Facilitate development of Procurement strategy and identify risk and opportunities within scope; Manage implementation of strategies within scope.
- Support Multiple BU’s and Natural Owners.
- Ability to perform cost/price analysis with total cost of ownership as objective.
- Ability to identify, negotiate and implement cost avoidance/reduction opportunities through total cost analysis as applicable.
- Responsible for meeting targets for assigned areas. Lead and facilitate internal teams and supplier meetings.
- Lead projects within scope, may be cross-functional, within assigned areas of responsibility.
- Knowledge and understanding of timely execution of escalations.
- Understanding of JIT, consignment and VMI. Ability to resolve invoice blocks on orders in their responsibility.
- Ability to ensure requirements are met by supplier through order placement, submission, and walk-through.




- Ability to lead direct reports including goal setting, people development, performance management and the use of the career management tool.
- Prior leadership and/or facilitation of internal teams and supplier meetings a plus
- Experience in Project management driving results on time is a plus
- Coaching and Mentoring skills to continue developing the internal team.

What your background should look like

REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineer or commercial degree required; Master's Degree is a plus.
- Bilingual, or at least 85% of English, both verbal and written
- 5 - 7 years of purchasing, supply chain, engineering, or technical management experience.
- Project management knowledge and background in handling multiple projects at same time.
- Advanced knowledge in the use of MS Office apps, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, and Power Point. Experience with MS Project as well as SharePoint is a plus.
- SAP knowledge a plus
- Able to work under stress, organized, results oriented and excellent communication abilities.

Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

Job Locations:

AVE. PRODUCCION #20
TIJUANA, Baja California 92154
Mexico

Posting City: TIJUANA

Job Country: Mexico

Travel Required: 10% to 25%

Requisition ID: 153957

Workplace Type: Onsite

External Careers Page: Procurement

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