Project Buyer

Volvo Group / Kontorsjobb / Göteborg
2017-02-02
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GTO Purchasing is a global organization with more than 1,300 Purchasing professionals distributed worldwide that brings all their expertise in securing purchasing excellence. We provide competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products and services that add real business value. GTO Purchasing has 78 billion SEK in Automotive Purchasing annual spend, 2,550 suppliers in serial production, 1,9 billion parts delivered to Group Truck plants annually.

Responsible purchasing involves encouraging correct behavior, managing risks and building long-term relations with our suppliers to improve social, environmental and business ethics in the supply chain. The Volvo Group strives to ensure that unethical values are not incorporated into our products and services, and we base our work on a minimum standard in our Code of Conduct. We believe that a high standard in our program for responsible sourcing will result in high productivity and stable long-term relations, which will benefit all parties.

Mission
We are now looking for a Project buyer to reinforce the Common Components team.
As our Project buyer you will take on the important challenge to drive and execute purchasing activities in cross-functional product projects (Start cost, PMRs with product feature or offering impact) and deliver on commitments in order to fulfill the purchasing part of GPOT (project gate passed on time) and QDCF (Quality Delivery Cost Features).

We can offer you
• The opportunity to work in a highly competitive environment with continental purchasing responsibilities.
• The challenge to be the cornerstone of all activities from the early phase of the project until its complete industrialization
• Be able to work and develop in a dynamic and multicultural organization.
• The chance to join our solid cross functional team consisting of team players with energy and creativity, who are willing to drive the change and strive for the best in order to deliver result.

Core Responsibilities
• Manage all project related supplier relations
• Member in applicable project cross-functional team(s)
• Negotiate changes between contract and actual project needs and ensure alignment to cost objectives
• Ensure supplier readiness for production
• Develop and maintain a sourcing plan, compile other sourcing prerequisites and secure timely hand-over to the Sourcing buyer.
• Compile and deliver QDCF results from project phase and secure a timely hand-over to the Operation buyer.
• Ensure collaboration with the other buyer roles within the respective segment(s
• Own the project purchasing key performance indicators on his/her segment(s)
• Lead Supplier Project Performance Reviews and contribute to Business Review Meetings (BRMs) with project performance input
• Drive Project crisis management when required and handle the escalation management at suppliers and in Volvo

GTO is actively working to establish teams and networks that take maximum advantage of the strength inherent in differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender and nationality, etc.

If you have questions, please contact
Jennie Torstensson, Purchasing Manager, Powertrain Projects
Phone: +46 739 02 44 16

Qualifications
• University degree in Business, Engineering or related field
• Purchasing and negotiation experience is seen as a strong advantage
• Project management experience is considered as an advantage
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Personal Profile
• As a person we believe that you have a business oriented mindset with strong communication, negotiation and networking skills. You also have a financial, technical and legal understanding. In addition to this you enjoy managing many parallel activities and you have a target oriented approach. A successful candidate has a high level of integrity and trust and gets quickly up to speed. You have a positive mindset and like to be a part of a team. At the same time you feel comfortable managing your own work, and taking the lead whenever needed.

One of the Volvo Group's and Purchasing's aspirations aims at being the most admired employer in our industry by attracting and retaining the best people in order to create and build a world-class purchasing team. Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) is the global organization with more than 1,300 purchasing professionals distributed worldwide that bring all their expertise in securing purchasing excellence. We provide competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products and services that add real business value. Group Trucks Purchasing has 78 billion SEK in Automotive Purchasing annual spend, 2,550 suppliers in serial production, 1,9 billion parts delivered to Group Truck plants annually. The Volvo Group applies the principles in its Code of Conduct in the purchasing process.

Publiceringsdatum
2017-02-02

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2017-02-20

Företag
Volvo Group

Adress
Volvo Group

40508 Göteborg

Kontorsadress


Jobbnummer
3297818

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