Purchasing Analyst

Volvo Group / Inköpar- och marknadsjobb / Göteborg
2017-06-26
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Mission

The Purchasing Analyst belong to the Purchasing Development team and work with analysis and development.

As a Purchasing Analyst, you will provide analysis and calculations in sourcing projects, in close cooperation with the responsible project manager and regional purchasers. The aim of the Purchasing Analyst group is to provide high-end analysis work to maximize the project deliveries.

You will also be driving internal development activities/projects, with increasing responsibility over time. The aim of these activities/projects is to increase the efficiency and quality of how we work in the Purchasing function.

In summary, you will have an important role to deliver analysis and reports and to contribute to the Purchasing function's efficiency, quality and ultimately success.

Knowledge and abilities needed
The position requires very high analytical and problem solving skills. We use advanced software to do the analysis, requiring some familiarity with more advanced analysis or programming.

The job also requires high communication skills and it is important to be able to collaborate easily with other members of the respective project teams as well as together with other analysts. It is also important to be engaged and driven, and have the ability to take complex tasks and break it down and deliver it. It is also necessary to have an improvement mindset and a "can do" attitude.

Main activities and responsibilities

1. Providing analysis in sourcing projects
In cooperation with the responsible Project Manager and the sourcing project team:
• Develop input to the RFI/RFQ by collecting supplier information and other relevant information and to structure and analysis the data
• Make analysis and calculations from the RFI/RFQ responses and price indications
• Consolidate an overview of all supplier proposals and scoring of the supplier responses according to a set of decision criteria's
• Analyze the sourcing project content and bring ideas and challenges to the projects for potential cost improvements and to lift deviations from the commodity strategies
• Support development and implementation of sourcing strategies

2. Drive internal development activities/projects
• Drive internal development activities/projects linked to process development, development of tools, templates, methods, benchmarks studies etc.

3. Represent Purchasing in different foras and working groups
• The Purchasing Analyst may be assigned to represent Purchasing in Volvo Group foras including but not limited to CSR, environment and data analytics

4. Analysis support to Management
• Supporting management with analysis and reports when needed

For further information please contact:
Mathias Claesson, Director Logistics Purchasing Development, +46 31 3238512

Critical competencies for the position
• A university degree in engineering and/or business
• Very high analytic and problem solving skills
• Very high communication skills
• Ability to work and deliver in global teams
• Very high ability to drive and deliver on complex actions and tasks
• Excellent general IT knowledge and preferably also programming skills
• Project management skills
• Excellent level of English language

The Volvo Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines under the leading brands Volvo, Renault Trucks, Mack, UD Trucks, Eicher, SDLG, Terex Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus, UD Bus, Sunwin Bus and Volvo Penta.

Volvo Group Trucks Operations encompasses the production of state-of-the-art products for the truck brands of the Volvo Group, as well as Volvo Group engines and transmissions, through an international world class industrial environment.

With Volvo Group Trucks Operations you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.

Publiceringsdatum
2017-06-26

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2017-07-07

Företag
Volvo Group

Adress
Volvo Group

40508 Göteborg

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Jobbnummer
3573729

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