Global Commodity Manager

1. Cost Down and Price Negotiation:

- Bundle group-wide purchasing volumes and generate EOS through consolidation and negotiation.

- Create environment in order to achieve constant and continuous cost reductions.

- Continuous benchmarking of current sources in order to create competitive environment assuring optimal costs.

- Reduction of landed material costs and provide full support to the reduction of overall business and process costs.

2. Commodity Strategy and SRM:

- Create global market transparency within allocated commodities and make sure that commodity strategy is existing.

- Communicate strategy to stakeholders within Purchasing and other functions (stakeholders) of the organisation.

- Assure that strategy is well known and “lived”.

- Use market knowledge gathered through continuous market screening/research to develop strategy on regular base.

- Drive development of competitive supplier portfolio in conjunction with material group team (technical buyers, operative buyers).

- Perform supplier relationship management.

- Owns strategic responsibility for assigned material groups from handling and/or spend point of view, independently executes strategic process improvements, saving or reporting projects within the global purchasing organization. Acts independently and self-confident in a truly global environment and deals with more than one Business divisions.

3. Supplier Development:

- Continuous assessment and development of whole supplier base with focus on Quality, logistic- and service performance as well as customer service level. Assure continuous performance improvement in all segments.

4. Support Local Supply Chains:

- Improve operational efficiency in purchasing.

- Support local supply chains as main escalator in case of supplier non/low performance.

- Risk management including contracting and implementation with suppliers.

- Implementation of logistic concepts and support of second sourcing activities led by technical buyers.

5. Quality and Innovation:

- Proactive planning and execution of supplier Audits as Lead Auditor.

- Generation of innovation via recognition of new and important technologies with suppliers as well as transfer to Zumtobel-Group technical and marketing decision makers.

6. Projects:

- Take lead and support projects in Purchasing/SCM area. Act as purchasing representative in global projects.

7. Standardisation:

- Coordination of the commodity team activities and realisation of global sourcing initiatives. Drive supplier standardisation in the commodity and support component standardisation led by technical buyers.

8. Make or Buy:

- Drive and perform make or buy decisions in the area of responsibility in order to optimise commodity purchasing process based on total costs of ownership.

9. Legal:

- Legal responsibility within commodity, assess legal risks and assure that contracts are existing and cover risks for Zumtobel-Group. Assure supplier compliance according to Code of Conduct and continuous improvement with regards to supplier sustainability.

10. Budget:

- Responsibility for Material cost budget in respective commodities.

11. Sustainability:

- Full contribution and responsibility to assure sustainability targets with all suppliers in dedicated material groups. Develop suppliers towards C2C requirements and Full material declaration standards.

Requirements:

- 5 - 10 years professional experience in similar position and product/component sourcing roles

- Bachelor Degree Holder

- Specific solid technical knowledge, source network in PCB, electronic components (film capacitors).

- Ability to develop of potential and competitive suppliers in term of quality, price, delivery and service

- Advanced English language skills

- Computer knowledge in MS Excel, MS Word and in depth knowledge with ERP (SAP Purchasing Module)

- Legal base skills and contract knowledge

- Good commercial sense and ethical always