Strategic Sourcing Specialist
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Country: Portugal (PT)
City: Ovar
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Yazaki Corporation, a family-owned company, was founded in 1929 as the first Japanese manufacturer of automobile wiring harness systems. Within the automotive business our product range includes wiring harness systems, plug connection systems and electronic systems. More than 284,000 committed and highly motivated employees in 478 locations in 45 countries make us one of the most successful international automotive suppliers. To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Strategic Sourcing Specialist.
Responsibilities:
- Sourcing responsible for all Business cases related to assigned sub-category and suppliers
- Develop sub-category strategy, align globally with other regions and deploy among relevant Yazaki Business Units & Central Functions and towards suppliers
- Negotiate and agree tooling costs, component price and conditions with suppliers to achieve overall targets by leveraging category volume bundling, material standardizations and localization/ point of purchase/ supply base optimization initiatives
- Management of Supplier Scorecards (Terms & Conditions, Saving Achievements, Cost Recovery, RFQ Performance, General Service Indicators, etc.) for assigned sub-categories and suppliers.
- Lead and support benchmarking studies and VAVE activities to identify cost reduction opportunities and to achieve market price levels for new projects and current mass production
- Manage RFQ/ benchmarks, sourcing pipelines and saving projects and present in Sourcing Boards for final implementation along the Purchasing Process
- Close collaboration with Design Engineering, Advanced Purchasing and Cost Engineering
Candidate’s Profile:
- Minimum 2- 3 years of relevant automotive experience
- Previously worked in same or similar category (Direct Material experience is mandatory)
- Master or bachelor’s degree in a related area
- Understanding of direct material negotiation tactics
- Good presentation skills
- Strategy creation and deliver
- Very strong team player
- Very strong communication skills
- English level: Advanced
- Wiliness to travel
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