Senior Lead Series Purchaser [China]

 

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Senior Lead Series Purchaser

Location Nanjing, China

Pacesetting. Passionate. Together. HELLA is a listed, internationally positioned automotive supplier operating under the umbrella brand FORVIA. Within this de facto group, HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and automotive electronics. At the same time, the Company covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special-purpose vehicles with its Lifecycle Solutions business group. HELLA has around 36,000 employees at more than 125 locations worldwide and generated consolidated sales of € 6.3 billion in the fiscal year 2021/2022.

YOUR TASKS

• A Purchasing Tasks
• 1 Analyze the purchasing market taking into account the needs and requirements of the relevant Product Centers and Hella Companies. Prepare and update supplier matrix, prepare qualified supplier evaluations and build up alternative suppliers to meet or overachieve purchasing targets in the dimensions of “Cost”, “Time” and “Quality” in alignment with the responsible party from Product Centers and Business Division
• 2 Prepare and implement a purchasing strategy for highly complex material groups with defined strategy teams. Establish a standard and optimized supplier basis worldwide to realize synergies by bundling purchasing volume, concentrating on efficient suppliers and optimizing the global process chain
• 3 Negotiate supplier frame contracts, define sourcing concept and realize sourcing activities incl. but not limited to sending RfQs, negotiating and nominating suppliers for tools and components within the material group (new projects, lifetime extensions, change management, etc.)
• 4 Define material cost changes (budgeting) in agreement with the Hella Companies and superior in order to create an aligned planning basis and to achieve business division objectives
• 5 Generate measures and support the measure generation for commercial and technical optimization of components or purchase volume to reduce costs and improve quality and security of supply
• 6 Analyse suppliers in cooperation with the suppliers, identify opportunities for improvement and derive corresponding qualification measures, involving internal organizational units, in order to optimize the process chain between the supplier and Hella
• B Business Partner
• 1 Ensure that the Purchasing Targets for all projects developed regionally within a defined Product Centre in the dimensions of “Cost”, “Time” and “Quality” are being achieved or overachieved
• 2 Know the Hella-values as well as purchasing standards, processes and tools along the product engineering process. Ensure they are known and applied in all projects under the business partners responsibly
• 3 Minimizing the total costs (Total Cost of Ownership) by an early integration of the Project Manager in the product engineering process (PEP). Optimizing development timeline by an early integration of approved suppliers in the simultaneous engineering process
• 4 Challenging the technical solutions for purchased parts in terms of cost efficiency and challenge the project team in order to ensure and overachieve targeted costs. Supporting the identification and achievement of cost potentials resulting from Design-to-Cost (DtC) and Re-DtC. For that, an understanding of the product engineering process and the material manufacturing process is needed
• C Project Manager
• 1 Ensure that the Purchasing Targets for defined technically highly complex and international projects in the dimensions of “Cost”, “Time” and “Quality” are being achieved or overachieved by steering and managing any kind of project specific purchasing activities for defined projects incl. projects with multiple development and/or production locations and incl. project related SQA activities
• 2 Know and apply the Hella-values as well as purchasing standards, processes and tools along the product engineering process
• 3 Minimizing the total costs (Total Cost of Ownership) by an early integration of the Project Manager in the product engineering process (PEP). Optimizing development timeline by an early integration of approved suppliers in the simultaneous engineering process

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• 1 Bachelor or higher Degree in Engineering / Optics / Physics / Mechanical
• 2 More than 5 years’ related experience
• 3 Proficient with optical components and tooling
• 4 Good Chinese and English communication skill, good presentation skill

Take the opportunity to reveal your potential within a global company that offers you the best possible conditions for progressing in your career.

Please send us your application through our careers portal, citing reference number req12933.

Jiaxing HELLA Lighting Co.,Ltd, Nanjing R&D Branch Company
Ivy Kong
ivy.kong@hella.com

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