Uptime Senior Buyer & Segment leader on Additive Manufacturing

Volvo Group / Inköpar- och marknadsjobb / Göteborg
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Do you enjoy working in an agile and challenging environment with high focus on the customer? Do you want to drive changes and bring innovations in a multicultural environment? Do you embrace continuous improvements and enjoy working in teams? Are you pro-active, service minded and target oriented?
Well, then you should apply today. We at Volvo Group Trucks Purchasing are looking for a Senior buyer in the Uptime& Adaptation
team to lead the Additive Manufacturing (AM) segment activities and we need you.

What is our offer to you?

Volvo mission is to drive prosperity in the transport industry and one of the foundation stone is the customer success! Fulfilling customers' demands rapidly and keep our promises by having their product up and running during its complete life cycle is exiting but might be also a true challenge. That requires for sure a change in mindset and to be innovative, capturing creative supply solutions on the market as well as driving it together with our preferred suppliers.
Typically, we need to challenge design, conventional purchasing methods and manufacturing technologies so that customers get their product quickly after they order! Rapidity and agility is key and it is becoming a standard in customer's mind. The Volvo Group therefore truly relies on Additive Manufacturing to serve our end customers in a quicker way.

Are you ready to take the ride and embrace the challenge?

This is your mission

You will be leading the purchasing activities on your scope with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the customers maximum satisfaction. That means that you will own and develop the global Segment Business Plan on Additive Manufacturing for GTP; scout and seek for the best suppliers plus bring creative and innovative solutions on this segment on the whole value chain (challenge design, sourcing & contract, procurement). You will also lead the Global segment negotiations and supplier performance reviews, manage your purchasing portfolio for service parts in order to secure the best QDCF-TSR performance and perform purchasing activities related to ordering, logistics and financial flows to the suppliers. A part of your mission will also be to:

Manage the buyers network and stimulate the business knowledge within the team on eligible segments for additive manufacturing (deploy strategy, share potential/preferred suppliers, facilitate best practices sharing, cost breakdowns, cost drivers, spend analysis, etc.)
Identify synergies with other Business Areas when relevant; make sure that the Volvo Group takes out the best of the market and the technology potentialities
Find out and promote business opportunities for Additive Manufacturing with the Brands organizations
Together with Innovative Purchasing team, get Additive Manufacturing to become a daily reality for buyers and engineers
Mentor and help to develop colleagues
Foster the Volvo values (customer success, trust, passion, change and performance)

The ticket to ride

At Volvo Group we believe in the concept 'Hire for attitude, train for skills'. Therefore, what's most important to get the opportunity to join us on journey is that you have ability to motivate, engage and involve others with passion for innovation. Since the job is about customer success it is also important that you have business acumen, customer focus with a holistic view and ability to communicate with facts, to sell concepts and get desired support.
An important part of this job is to develop our organization, which is why strategic ability, service minded and target oriented approach plus integrity and trust based collaborations are your strengths.

We also believe that you have:
Master degree in Business, Engineering, supply chain or related field
6 years' experience of buyer experience, automotive is a plus
High effective written and verbal communication (English)
Extensive experience negotiating and interacting with suppliers
Willingness to travel from occasionally to frequently based on ongoing activities
Experience in additive manufacturing and/or powder technologies is a plus!
At GTP strives to be a multicultural and global organization. We welcome applicants which can even further increase our diversity. Come join us, apply today!

The Volvo Group aims at being the most admired employer in the industry by attracting and engaging the best people. Volvo Group Purchasing provides competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products & services with the right quality output that add real business value for our customers. We are a global division with approximately 1,300 professionals world-wide providing expertise to secure Purchasing Excellence for Customer Success. Volvo Group Purchasing has 120 BSEK in Purchasing annual spend, 2,550 suppliers in serial production, and 1,9 billion parts delivered to the Group Truck plants annually. We support the Volvo Group's mission 'Driving prosperity through transport solutions' by applying the principles of Code of Conduct and responsible sourcing to the purchasing processes.

Publiceringsdatum
2018-07-06

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Företag
Volvo Group

Adress
Volvo Group

40508 Göteborg

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Jobbnummer
4239624

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