Sourcing Manager - Procurement/Supply Chain

Solothurn  ‐ Onsite
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Description

The Sourcing Specialist will support category development, sourcing of components and supplier relationship management for the metals, electronics and packaging categories.The Sourcing Specialist will assist customers with material and process selection for purchases, assist customers in locating and selecting suppliers for purchases per category strategies, negotiate prices, develop and administer contracts for strategic suppliers, develop strategic suppliers, develop and improve large spend category strategies and major business processes such as business continuity and supplier selection to deliver annual improvements in total cost, quality and service, and support sites as needed.

- Develop an expertise in the business needs and capabilities for major spend categories or key business processes.

- Keep up with supply market trends, supplier economics, and best practice sourcing.

- Ensure training on and compliance with relevant company procedures.

- Seek to improve capabilities of the supplier base or key business processes.

- Report performance data for assigned categories or key business processes.

- Communicate, monitor, and aggressively manage compliance with the sourcing strategy or business process.

- Establish close working relationships with other functions (e.g. engineering, operations, marketing, quality) to ensure full understanding and support of strategic sourcing perspective to key processes. - Track and manage performance of suppliers and ensure that performance issues are quickly addressed.

- Identify sources of data for performance metrics, create a process to collect data, and champion the collection efforts.

- Champion annual productivity improvements by leading internal & joint supplier / teams pursuing cost reduction opportunities in alignment with the sourcing strategy (e.g. lowering inventory levels, increasing yields, improving supplier operations, etc.)

REQUIREMENTS
- Associate's degree in logistics, business administration, operations or equivalent experience

- 1-3 years procurement/sourcing experience preferred

- 1-3 years of Materials / Supply Chain experience is required

- german and english fluent

You can expect a challenging and varied job in a multicultural environment. If this is something you are interested in please send your CV to Ms Burcu Parilti, If you have any questions please feel free to contact us on . We look forward to hearing from you.
Start date
10/2015
Duration
6 Months
From
Real Staffing
Published at
20.08.2015
Project ID:
969485
Contract type
Freelance
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