Summary The Lead Factory Sourcing Site Leader for Dubai, Saudi and India plants will be responsible for all sourcing activities required so the sites can purchase material at the lowest cost and in the most efficient manner to support operations. This includes managing and negotiating contracts for suppliers not covered by a global contract.
This position will support all ITO deals with competitive pricing leveraging existing commodity strategies & cost-out plans, risk-mitigated advance releases, volume-buy impacts and ad-hoc quotations for unique parts. Make sure the site properly executes global contracts and represents the site so that future global contracts result in the best possible outcome

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Roles and Responsibilities

Coordinate with strategic sourcing, engineering and finance to ensure that the product cost databases accurately reflect current rates and costs to support bidding activity.

• Coordinate with ITO and procurement to ensure standard purchasing cycles are accurate and updated.

• Lead the assigned commodities for the site to achieve cost optimization, cycle reduction and cash flow.

• Coordinate costing of customer specific non-standard cost and cycles for sourced equipment.

• Lead the supplier selection, qualification, development, and overall supplier management, including managing the entire contract life cycle from Request for Proposal to supplier exit (for the commodities not covered by a global contract)

• Balance strategy development with the tactical execution necessary to execute cost reduction projects through contract negotiation, process changes, and implementation of sustainable cost controls, including collaboration with Finance to validate the impact of projects and contract negotiations to the general ledger

• Support ERP and transactional activities for the Factory such as No-sourcing, Pricing updates, supplier identification, among others.

• Develop technical and market expertise to support the site spend.

• Manage relationships with suppliers for PO execution. Manage problems and schedule changes. Update ERP.

• Support Delivery and Quality performance from suppliers and respective improvement plans

• Work closely with engineering, commercial team, procurement team and supplier quality engineers to ensure fulfillment and quality requirements are achieved

• Align with logistics and commercial teams to ensure adequate regional capacities exist to minimize transportation costs and meet localization requirements

• Identify and assess supplier capabilities, and measure and manage supplier performance

• Negotiate lowest possible cost while maintaining the highest quality of goods and services

• Ensure global contracts are executed properly and market shares are followed

• Lead supplier negotiations regarding claims/recovery

• Actively support supplier fulfilment issue resolution as the first level of escalation from a commercial standpoint.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s Degree from an accredited college or university

• Minimum of 5 years of supply chain experience in Sourcing, Sales, Commercial Operations, and/or Supply Chain.

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Engineering

• Prior sourcing experience in contract negotiation negotiating, identifying opportunities, selecting suppliers and implementing contracts

• Prior experience in leading negotiations

• Strong quantitative and data analysis skills

• Strong project management and process improvement skills

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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