Strategic Buyer

BSH Home Appliances Corporation - Top Employer US 2024 Tomorrow is our home. At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home appliance brands Bosch, Gaggenau, and Thermador, we prioritize having a consumer centric mindset and creating positive experiences for the consumer throughout all interactions with our products and services. Join us now and give your career a home. You Belong Here. Strategic Buyer New Bern, NC / Full-time Your responsibilities Responsible for operational, tactical, and strategic purchasing activities specifically related toPACKAGING COMMODITY: -Negotiating, updating prices, contracting etc... -Scouting suppliers and proposing to regional / global responsible within the TCO approach -Generating cost cutting projects and presenting to stakeholders and x-functions. -Drive the price reduction process -Negotiate for assigned suppliers with Key Account responsibility to drive best cost position of all BSH customer factories, and present to local and global the price updates. Job functions Pu-Purchase materials, supplies, services at most favorable, sustainable, flexible, and feasible terms. Initiate best cost country and localization initiatives, supporting cost benefit. Conduct capacity check activities to ensure availability of technical capacity allocated at local suppliers (global suppliers, where having key account responsibility) Support and Execute material group strategies and tailor supplier portfolio to BSH requirements, short and mid-term. Perform market research, scouting suppliers, new technologies (based on product / project requirements), etc... Negotiation power of >$20million, annually, for more than 1 factory. Act as a supplier key account with regional commodity management responsibility (US, MX, Canada or the Americas). This includes low/medium technical complexity components with high impact (such as raw materials Steel, plastic resin for Direct Materials and Real Estate, MRO, MaE and Marketing for Indirect Material) Prepare forecast and Business Plan 'premises' (assumptions) for the suppliers within their Key Account responsibility. Operational: Update price changes, resolve price discrepancies, maintain system maintenance, generate Request for orders (RFOs), system (TCNG/Coupa) tasks; initiate request for quote/request for proposal (RFQs/RfPs). Operational: regularly check supplier capacities to ensure reliable supply, act as an escalation level in critical supplier topics (capacity/supply/quality) and support task force teams Functional Leadership: Perform regular price negotiations based on bundling opportunities for the suppliers with Key Account responsibility Governance: Make and document all legal framework contracts; including perform supplier risk management tasks, supplier performance management, supplier financial health checks, collect documents to initiate and maintain new suppliers Tactical: Conduct bench-marking price of suppliers in and outside of existing portfolio. Negotiate price contracts, using relative tools to intensify competition between suppliers. Continuously following market prices (material, labor etc) and initiate price discussions based on agreed cost break down formulas. Generate cost break down review. Conduct benchmark activities of different suppliers, different commodities, markets and countries to optimize cost. Your profile Bachelors degree (Technical or Busi