Senior Strategic Buyer

vor 1 Monat


Berlin, Deutschland ALSTOM Vollzeit

Req ID:409564

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

As a **Strategic Senior Buyer (f/d/m) **you are responsible for establishing and maintaining effective relationships with selected suppliers, to ensure that continuous improvement initiatives are introduced and maintained in line with Alstom Procurement processes.

**Responsibilities**:

- To lead the Purchasing activity for a family of products or suppliers in order to obtain a competitive advantage for the local business unit
- To provide supply solutions for difficult sourcing issues
- To be responsible for identifying potential savings and implementing continuous cost reduction initiatives.
- To be responsible for ensuring the importance of supplier selection and researching and evaluating possible new suppliers in order to provide supply solutions for difficult local sourcing issues not covered by global agreements.
- Manage relationship with suppliers in line with Alstom policies and procedures (Supplier selection/approval/competitiveness/delivery performance)
- To be responsible for establishing and monitoring supplier performance and conducting Key Supplier Development processes. To be responsible for implementing continual improvement processes and monitors.
- To be responsible for managing and maintaining commercial relationships with suppliers and conducting complex negotiation on contractual conditions of Purchase. This will include organizing bids and comparing and judging supplier offers relative to new and existing customer requests
- To resolve delivery problems that are escalated by the buyers and to continually monitor supplier performance.

**Set up full supplier selection process**
- Prepare and launch of Request for Quotation with suppliers
- Lead project negotiation
- Monitor Procurement project QCDT (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Time) & legal project evolution (FAI, Business Award, Product development)
- Ensure work package sheet commitment respect
- Prepare Business Award
- Promote the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct.
- Coordinate project with all métiers
- Ensure the on-time delivery and quality are secured especially during the ramp-up phase of the project

**Support commodity strategy**
- Consolidate the commodity needs, inputs
- Participate actively to commodity strategy and panel elaboration
- Provide imputes to build differentiation
- Support of Commodity Manager in tender phase
- Represent the commodities towards projects, platforms and solutions.
- Ensure effective teamwork with internal customers and stakeholders in problem solving
- Build Supplier relationship

**Support global supplier panel relationship**
- Manage specific supplier panel relationship (negotiation, specific agreement, local supplier QCDT performances)
- Measure the supplier's performance and develop them in coordination with supplier Quality Team
- Assess properly all risky suppliers and manage the associated mitigation plan
- Manage initial issues before escalation to line manager
- Monitor Corporate Social Responsibility engagements and deviations
- Respect Alstom code of ethics and guidelines
- Performance measurements:

- Savings P&L and Cost to Complete
- Non-Conformities Event and On Time Delivery
- Panel situation Supplier compliancy status rate

**Qualifications**:

- Min. 5 years of relevant working experience (Project, Procurement, Engineering, Quality)
- MASTER / MBA in Business, Purchasing/Sourcing/Procurement/Engineering or equivalent
- Eyxcellent communication and negotiation skills
- Structured way of thinking and working, able to think with the superordinated common target in the back of the mind
- Well-organized, service oriented, sociable and with a problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to work in a matrix environment, international mindset, team spirit
- Ability to challenge, results oriented, rigorous and structured
- Fluency in English and German

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challen


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