**SUMMARY**:
Administrate sourcing and purchasing process to ensure compliance, identify and negotiate best prices for required needs and ensure timely delivery of materials and services for selected categories.
**- ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**- Execute and follow strong best sourcing and purchasing processes and practices.
- Ensure process runs in compliance with HARTING guidelines and ensuring all users of the process follow it.
- Identify and develop strategies for specific purchasing categories and services.
- Ensure user requirements are contemplated when executing sourcing process.
- Understand local supplier market and establish partnerships with local suppliers.
Goal to reduce total cost of ownership by developing new suppliers for specific material categories.
- Run RFQ/RFI required for MX41 for specific categories.
Perform RFQs on Bid-stage & Execution phase of projects.
Ensure material cost control and monitoring for specific categories.
- Carry out negotiations and renegotiations for relevant purchasing categories.
- Manage and keep documentation of purchasing contracts with suppliers.
- Manage supplier performance through a steady process.
- Execute and control purchase to pay process (purchase requisition, approval, Purchase order, goods/service receipt, payment) for relevant categories.
- Control and manage invoice control process and keep close communication with finance to ensure timely payment to suppliers.
- Serve as main contact for any supplier situation for relevant categories.




- Monitor budget of specific accounts.
- Develop and implement processes and tools to monitor, report and analyze spending trends and identify opportunities to consolidate spending.
- Propose, drive and monitor initiatives (savings) for costs reduction for relevant categories.
- Identify and implement changes to business processes that will enhance service delivery
- Close communication with Elgin and Germany on status of procurement, on new processes and tools
**- EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE**:
- Bachelor's degree
- 1-2 years of related experience in purchasing roles or similar activities
- Good negotiation capabilities preferred.
- Experience in automotive, electrical, assembly desired is a plus.
- Experience with SAP is a must.
**- LANGUAGE SKILLS**:
- Fluent English
**- SKILLS**:
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment
- Clear leadership abilities
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Autonomy: ability to anticipate problems and develop solutions with mínimal direction
- Initiative, reliability and good judgement;
- Motivation and enthusiasm.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Ability to read, analyzes, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.

📌 Production Material Buyer (Silao)
🏢 HARTING México S.A. de
📍 Silao