Supplier Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Country
ITALY
Location
Parma
Your opportunity
The supplier Manager is responsible for the development and implementation of sourcing strategies and suppliers management for given categories of spend at global and/or local level. His/her mission is to achieve commodity results and ensure compliance with Group strategy to drive overall performance & profitability for the Business.
Your Mission
- 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.
Your Profile
- Master Degree or equivalent. Degree in Engineering is preferred; Business/Economics is also accepted.
- Fluency in English is a must. French and/or Chinese will be considered 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.
