Senior Buyer

Job Description - Associate Category Manager - Steel and Sheet Metal (009999)

Location: CDMX Plant, Schneider Electric

What Will You Do? Ensure the best Quality, Cost, and Delivery Conditions to supply Sheet Metal (K3 category) and Steel raw material (A1 category) to several plants within the North America Region. Aligned with the Corporate Strategy, you are in charge of implementing the best terms and conditions with suppliers to achieve, on a sustainable basis, the targets allocated to the team and the Purchasing Department (Yearly Productivities, Suppliers Quality & Deliveries performances).

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the operational relationships with allocated suppliers and drive sustainable competition into the supplier panel.
• Manage the Request for Quotations and offers selection in consistency with the commodity strategy.
• Lead concentration plan on targeted suppliers for Schneider Electric while securing business risks.
• Execute the supplier strategy on targeted suppliers for Schneider Electric while securing business risks.
• Lead/participate in yearly negotiations with other Departments.
• Identify/implement Technical productivities (QVE), Supplier Change (COS) with related actors (Business Unit, Material Productivity Leaders, Suppliers).
• Whenever bearing a role of SSL (Schneider Supplier Leader), lead a global approach (Global negotiation, Should Cost approach, and Lean initiatives for allocated suppliers).
• Contribute to the purchasing database/tools updates by providing necessary information to commodity managers/supplier leaders/purchasing assistant.
• Be the first escalation level for supplier crisis management.

Qualifications:

We know skills and competencies show up in many different ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

This job might be for you if you fit the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Management or Engineering with 3 years of experience in Purchasing.

Hard-skills:

• Legal aspects, risk analysis, contracts setting.
• Financial aspects with good knowledge of Excel.
• Business knowledge and trade-off (Service Vs cost, Total Cost of Ownership).
• Quality and supply chain knowledge.

Soft-skills:

• Open-minded & results-oriented.
• Leadership skills with the ability to influence.
• Capable of working under pressure.
• Ability to communicate, organize, and work with Plant Top Management Team and purchasing people.
• Good analytical skills.
• Able to identify and manage priorities.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization.