Buyer for Direct Material (d/f/m)

The Buyer for Direct Material (Sourcing Professional) contributes to procurement strategy for his/her product and execute order placement and agreements with suppliers supporting business KPIs. 

The  Buyer for Direct Material (Sourcing Professional) is responsible for: 

• Contribute to develop and execute long term strategies for the assigned commodity, ensuring best performance for procurement KPI 
• Integrate commodity strategies into product leadership, sales, engineering, and manufacturing objectives.
• Deal with New Product Development, driving supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management with support of engineering, sales, product leadership and other procurement team in accordance with the business strategy 
• Partner and be a point of reference for Product Leadership, Sales and Engineering for product strategy of the assigned commodity
• Develop negotiation strategies and leading negotiations to achieve stated goals and objectives of supply chain for Single PO as well as Strategic Partnership
• Negotiate and issue purchase orders with suppliers achieving lowest possible cost for material, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs 
• Develop Procurement initiatives for cost out program, deflation, cycle reduction, BVC Procurement and cash flow improvement (e.g. rebate, payment terms) 
• Leverage S&OP data to match and optimize supplier capacity with business goals