Belgrade
Project Buyer
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your Job Specification
- Planning, coordination and management of purchasing topics within global platform projects for known as well as new technologies and products in coordination with all functions involved according to the product development process
- Creation and execution of target settings (PEPsi) according to the defined process with the responsible specialist functions including the responsibility for results
- Creation of the project-specific global procurement concept and joint approval with the project management, the respective specialist functions and the project purchasing manager
- Initiation and implementation of Early Involvement of suppliers in the project
- Determination and provision of the project data as well as initiation and control of the inquiry preparation and request for quotation in close cooperation with the component purchasing department
- Identification and demonstration of cost reduction potentials (RACE) as well as ensuring their implementation in accordance with the target agreement after approval by the Project Purchasing Director
- Project protection for supplier and quality problems according to the escalation matrix
- Coordination and control of tasks within the project change management process for the purchasing department
- Continuous demand planning (short, medium and long term) for assigned and future projects (sourcing calendar
Your Profile
- Technical studies attested by a diploma of up to 4 years' duration or otherwise acquired comparable knowledge and skills
- 3 years relevant professional experience, in industrial (preferably automotive) purchasing or sales
- Good knowledge of contract law
- Good PC skills: MS-Office applications, MS-Project, SAP R/3 MM-Module
- Good technical knowledge (regarding production technologies etc.)
- Good knowledge of project management methods, target costing and value analysis
- Fluent in English (written/spoken)