Project purchasing manager w/m

Envie de challenges ? Rejoignez la révolution de l’automobile au sein d’un groupe qui met l’innovation au cœur de sa stratégie.

OPmobility est un leader mondial des solutions innovantes pour une mobilité unique, plus sûre et plus durable. Tourné vers l'innovation depuis sa création, le groupe développe et produit des systèmes extérieurs intelligents, des modules complexes sur mesure, des systèmes d'éclairage, des systèmes d'énergie propre et des solutions d'électrification pour tous les acteurs de la mobilité. Avec un chiffre d'affaires de 11,4 milliards d'euros en 2023 et un réseau mondial de 152 usines et 40 centres de R&D, OPmobility s'appuie sur ses 40 300 collaborateurs pour relever les défis de la transformation de la mobilité.

Notre ambition ? Fournir aux constructeurs automobiles des équipements et des solutions de pointe pour développer la voiture propre et connectée de demain.

As part of the Europe Purchasing team, your missions and activitier include the following:

Activity 1 : Manage a team of project buyers

* Hierarchical Management: take in charge the appraisal and training for his/her team
* Provide guidance, support, and coaching at group level. Propose development plans according to project buyer needs, Intensify coaching and development of less senior buyers Provide guidance on product and purchasing process issues
* Ensure smooth transitions in people moves and promote team members development and evolution
* Monitor workload and buyer performance and work with manager to balance workload within the group

Activity 2 : Sourcing Process

* Establishes the supplier short list with project buyers for the project with commodity and project team – ensures group has knowledge of linkage to commodity strategy and the knowledge is transferred and understood by CC
* Negotiates according to the project’s quality, cost and deadline
* Proposes and compares alternative solutions
* Addresses the sourcing recommendation to the Sourcing Board. Validates and consolidates at group level the sourcing proposals

Activity 3 : Ordering and payment:

* Manages purchase request and purchase order related to project
* Follows payment schedule to suppliers

Activity 4 : Coordination & tracking

* Identifies project risks and opportunities, plans activity, and coordinates internally and externally, and tracks them to final realization
* In case of critical topic related to supplier and QCT, he leads associate task force, and escalates to commodity team and management

Activity 5 : Supplier quality & nonevent launch:

* Attends POMs events as required and ensures POMs processes and mind-set and part of the group coaching process
* Implements Tier 2 readiness process with objective of non-event launch related to suppliers

Activity 6 : Project Management :

* Functional lead for the extended team activity for group projects
* Leads critical topics for own project and supports buyers on their critical topics
* Ensures manager is aware of critical issues

Activity 7 : Budget management:

* Validates project budget and guides buyers on budget process and follow-up
* Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution
* Insures the follow up of hour’s budget of projects at group level and alerts in case of gap
* Regularly reports status to budget to manager

Activity 8 : Continuous Improvements:

* Participates to continuous improvements for job, organizations and methodology
* At the end of the project, participates to the closure of project and gives feedback regarding best practice and difficulties – coordinates this feedback with project buyer team to commodity and other stakeholders (SQDE and CDE)

The requirements for the position include the following:

Personal Background

* Bachelor of Engineering or Science or Business School with purchasing speciality
* 10 years of experience in the field of project purchasing

Job Technical skills

* Technical negotiations
* Finance & cash management
* Logistics (consignment, incoterms)
* Crisis Management
* Knowledge of project management in automotive business

Job Soft skills

* Fluent in English, any additional level is a plus
* Team player
* Rigor & result oriented
* Good communication ability
* Leadership
* Multi task abilities
* Customer oriented
* Flexibility and stress resistance
* Regular Travel

En tant qu’employeur responsable, OPmobility est attentif à la diversité et à la mixité de ses équipes. Le groupe s’engage à traiter toutes les candidatures de manière égale, dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.