Job Details

• Owns Supplier Relationship and delivers strategic impact through Supplier Strategy Development.
• Understands the full business relationship of the Supplier, its position in the market relative to others, and its strategy, investment themes and capabilities
• Manage Supplier performance score card using the Global Supplier Rating System (GSRS) and enrich it with cross-functional stakeholder feedback /calibration
• Develops, based on CM, business and supplier strategy, an aligned account strategy for the supply relationship. Clearly defining areas of development such as performance, cost and feature competitiveness improvement, relevant future business opportunities and a contract that enables such execution
• Apply oversight and monitoring of agreed projects being executed in the business by securing close alignment between supplier, PE and business
• Orchestrates Supplier related activities and communication between internal and external stakeholders to ensure one consistent Supplier approach
• Purchasing Strategy and Process
• Establishes product requirements in the assigned commodities
• Provides regular reports to Management that brings visibility on commodity level on compliance, spend and savings.
• Continuous improvement of Purchasing processes and technologies
• Commodity Strategy Development
• Actively participates in commodity teams within India / globally, and brings region (local) & business requirements into commodity or cluster team
• Provides commodity spend analytics
• Deploys commodity strategies by establishment of Purchasing strategies and sourcing plans
• Pursues leads/opportunities to increase leverage and supports their development where applicable, in close conjunction with the relevant Commodity Manager
• Be aware of industry information/ benchmark and contribute it to the commodity teams
• Overall owns the supplier contracts and negotiations for assigned commodity(ies)
• Establishes baseline and target prices for negotiations
• Responsible for availability of sourcing plans and detailed contracts
• Responsible for implementation of contracts, working instructions and guidelines for users on how to deploy contracts.

• Masters Degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent.
• Good understanding of supplier manufacturing processes, part cost roll-ups, commodity price movement trend, part development tools & methodologies (including, but not limited to DFM, AQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plan)
• Highly motivated, action oriented, persistent towards accomplishing tasks and drives for success
• Ability to communicate well, oral and written, in English
• Cross functional skills and awareness of business requirements,
• Is capable of understanding global approach and align locally
• Is accurate and delivers quality work, with a strong sense of urgency

Reference ID - GH/CRS/JC//08052019//83645/Supplier Account Manager - SAM