Job title: Indirect buyer – Packaging & Quality
Company: Garrett Advancing Motion
Job description: Job Category: BuyingJob Description:The Indirect Buyer EMEAI for TL & OS is accountable for implementation of regionall & local commodity strategies within own sub-commodities. Acts as project manager in local and regional tenders with individual spends overreaching millions of USD. Supports stakeholders from responsible spend categories within mainly EMEAI region (but also globally) in delivering good quality results.Key Areas of Responsibility and Roles
- Regional responsibility for TL & OS category with overall yearly accountable spend between 10- 30 mil. USD. Delivers set KPIs. Implements regional/ local sourcing strategies for responsible commodities. Plans, initiates and performs regional and local tenders based on set strategies. Optimizes category set-up, initiates new projects & optimizations delivering savings. Maintains good relationships with stakeholders across the organization as well as with vendors. Deep knowledge and interest in own categories – acts as advisory, follows the market and vendors in it.
- Project manager: Acts as a key role in regional/ local sourcing projects. Creates and responsible for project time plan. Drives stakeholders to fullfill their tasks in time, escalates to higher level if needed. Monitors project spend, plans and initiates common project meetings, reports and presents to higher levels not only within Indirect Procurement Organisation. Coordinates all project phases, ensures quality delivery from Indirect Procurement side.
- Performs day to day requirements of the job including commodity but also operational point of view.
- Commodity level: Main focus is on sourcing part including implementation of strategies and delivery of productivity. Follows internal rules and procedures within indirect sourcing processes, has deeper knowledge of individual indirect sourcing steps together with needed commodity specifics. Performs sourcing of bigger regional projects as well as local projects with spend over 10 000 USD, if required by relevant Parties, nevertheless ability to prioritise. Creates and responsible for tender documentation, communicates and negotiates with vendors, performs e-auctions, presents sourcing results in Indirect Sourcing Governance. Obtains supplier risk checks from Garrett risk team. Prepares & co-operates on final draft contracts with legal department as well as summarises and consults contract deviations. Reports and fulfills daily tasks from Indirect Procurement Manager EMEAI for TL & OS and Indirect Procurement Director. Available to act mostly independently, but also to work in a team.
- Operational level: Responsible for functional P2P process (Procure to Pay) of own spend categories from PO (purchase order) creation to duly invoice payment within Garrett internal systems (Coupa, SAP). Escalates any deviations in right P2P process. Manages, educates & drives stakeholders in order to ensure the internal rules are followed. Creates or changes vendor data in internal Coupa system – controls and provides information about compliant bidding process to the Indirect Procurement Manager EMEAI for TL & OS. Regularly updates information about KPI results in Coupa system and in other required folders on Indirect Procurement SharePoint. Supports other colleagues with smaller needed tasks if a decision is made by Indirect Procurement Manager EMEAI for TL & OS or Indirect Procurement Director. Solves issues with past due invoices with Accounts Payables (AP) team – initiates and drives communication between vendor & AP team & stakeholder. Identifies root cause and helps to set up a long-term solution. Supports other functions with audit, new software implementation, new vendor classification.
Education and qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree or above (in economics, logistics, packaging, transportation, international trade, law or related field is a plus)
Experience required:
- Experience in required sub-categories. Min. 2-year experience in procurement (direct or indirect) in relevant sub-commodities
Professional Skills and Knowledge:
- Microsoft Office, e-auction and SAP skills together with ability to adapt quickly to other procurement systems (Coupa is a plus)
Required skills:
- Acts with sense of urgency and focuses on results. Strong personality with ability to drive stakeholders, not to be driven by them. Good negotiator and communicator. Strong common sense and keen to learn new things. Responsible, reliable, flexible. Loyal and helpfull to the team. Demonstrates the ability to think strategically and critically analyze details. Multitasking and time management skills. Knowledge of procurement/sourcing – preferably in relevant spend categories (automotive is a +) Good organizational skills – ability to prioritize and do problem solving, Project management and presentation skills.Very good English -min. B2 level, Microsoft Office and SAP skills together with ability to adapt quickly to other procurement systems (Oracle/ Coupa is a +) Self-motivated and capable to work with tight deadlines.
About Us: Garrett is a cutting-edge technology leader delivering differentiated solutions for emission reduction and energy efficiency. We are passionate about innovating for mobility and beyond. With a nearly 70-year legacy, we serve customer worldwide with passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, aftermarket replacement, and performance enhancement solutions.About the Team: The Garrett Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) organization manufactures and delivers safe, high quality products and services, on time, at a competitive cost to customers globally. We make quality a competitive advantage and provide world-class delivery and flexibility thanks to a result-oriented operating system which sustainably drives top performance and continuous improvement across the business in full alignment with our strategic priorities.
Expected salary:
Location: Hlavní město Praha
Job date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:41:42 GMT
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