Commodity Buyer

**Job Description Summary**: Commodity Buyer for dedicated and assigned commodities on Grid Solutions GSI Substation Business. The Commodity Buyer is responsible for the performance of the associated suppliers from tendering stage (ITO) to execution (OTR). She/He addresses customer specific requirements for each project while assuring best practices sharing continuous improvement among other commodity buyers. She/He supports also the existing Sourcing team for the purchase of other materials and services needed for our projects.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Define supplier strategy including management and optimization of supplier panels
- Actively driving the communication towards suppliers to improve pricing, lead times and payment terms
- Prepare and launch RFQ's, negotiate the contracts in coordination with the internal stakeholders and transmit information to Procurement
- Prioritize contract (re)negotiation, anticipate information gathering and discussions to accelerate contract agreement in OTR
- Coordinate the assessment of the supplier’s performance, to manage the on-going contracts execution and to influence the strategic positioning for next deals
- Map the supplier market per capabilities, business interest, past performance, geographical area for each segment
- Share market evolutions, key indexes, best practices within the team and across other GE organizations, templates, checklists
- Ensure that accurate and complete hypotheses are taken into consideration in order to win profitable projects at tender phase. At execution phase, coordinate negotiations with commodity managers and local buyers and directly negotiate some commodities.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.
- Uses some judgment and has the ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems. Has ability to prioritize information for data analysis. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.

**Required Qualifications**
- Expertise in Project Contract Management, Engineering or Strategic Sourcing
- At least 3 years of working experience
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Language: German (B1 level required) and English
- Office Software (Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook)
- Ability to work in a global environment
- Hybrid Office Model Accepted

**Desired Characteristics**
- Project sourcing and negotiations skills
- Ability to develop, understand and execute commodity strategies
- Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact
- Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
- Effective problem identification and solution skills
- Ability to work in a team and matrix organizationStrong oral and written communication skills and ability to influence others

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No