Supplier Manager
FRANCE, Corcelles Les Citeaux
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategies for specific spend categories at both local and global levels. You will manage suppliers to achieve strategic and financial goals in alignment with the group strategy, thus contributing to the company’s overall performance and profitability. Additionally, you will continuously monitor the market, negotiate contracts, and manage the supplier base to improve costs, quality, delivery, and technology, while ensuring compliance with sourcing processes.
- Develop and implement short and mid-term global commodity strategies for assigned spend categories, including strategic areas, notably by performing and consolidating deep analysis (spent, cost breakdown) and business continuity assessment.
- Ability to define the annual budget forecast, year over year, analysing the spend assigned and identifying risk and opportunities.
- Monitor the market through constant benchmarking to continuously improve costs, quality, delivery, and technology.
- Negotiate and apply contracts with global and local Suppliers.
- Perform Supplier base management activities by ensuring contracting tasks, financial risk assessment, non-quality cost recovery, supplier visit and disengagement process and manage Supplier Relationship at global level, monitoring trend of KPIs and setting necessary corrective actions. Actively interact with suppliers to drive the productivity, meet quality requirements while driving proper actions to mitigate the risks. Manage forcefully the issues escalated impacting the execution.
- Scout new suppliers to comply with the category strategy and lead the qualification process developing a unique sustainable supplier base.
- Perform analysis in assigned categories. For relevant commodity (cost, strategic importance, …), monitor the market through constant benchmarking and/or cost breakdown analysis in order to continuously improve costs, quality, delivery and technology; and escalade in case of main non conformity. Perform business continuity assessment: financial risk including supplier dependency analysis and capacity assessment with dual source analysis.
- Communicate effectively and manage relationships with relevant internal stakeholders, to contribute to the cross-functional projects
- Ensure compliance with the sourcing processes.
Master Degree or equivalent
Degree in Engineering is preferred; Business/Economics is also accepted
Fluency in English and in French is a must. Italian and/or Chinese is a plus
Required experience and skills:
Min 3 years in strategic sourcing in an international manufacturing company
Knowledge and ability to decode mechanical drawings, raw material’s constraints and treatments is a plus
Experience in manufacturing environment or sales is a plus
Experience in international negotiations, contract and claim management
Experience outside of own country of origin is a plus
Very good negotiation skills as key element in order to communicate with both suppliers and other stakeholders