Belgrade
Pre-Series 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 tasks
- Creation of project-specific, global procurement concepts for A and B samples and joint approval with the project management, the respective functions, and the supervisor
- Independent preparation and performance of RFQs, as well as independently conduct and conclude price negotiations to select the suppliers for pre-series projects
- Independently conduct and conclude annual price negotiations and agree framework agreements and price conditions with pre-series suppliers
- Ensure the industrialization of production equipment and the ramp-up in the plant by providing parts demands on time in global projects in cooperation with commodity purchasing, industrial engineering and plant logistics
- Strategic expansion of the supplier base for pre-series in alignment with the other business units and regions, among other things by carrying out benchmarks
- Creation and coordination of measures that lead to potential cost savings in pre-series sales
- Submission and implementation of proposals for the possible optimization of tooling costs
- Independent target setting for pre-series demands across the various development phases of a product as input for quotation and product calculation in alignment with the supervisor
Your Profile
- Basic studies in the field of technical or economical sciences, VII level of education
- 3-5 years of professional experience
- Knowledge of target costing and value analysis (preferable)
- Technical knowledge regarding manufacturing technologies (preferable)
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Good knowledge of project management methods
- Experience in automotive industry (preferable)
- Knowledge of contract law and purchasing law (preferable)
- Fluent English language skills
Milica Nikacevic
(+381) 114510393