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Sr Commodity Purchasing Buyer

ZF (Thailand) Limited
ZF (Thailand) Limited (Chon Buri, Thailand)
Chonburi, Thailand 🇹🇭
ZF (Thailand) Limited
ZF is a global technology company supplying advanced mobility products and systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology. Its comprehensive product range is primarily aimed at vehicle manufacturers, mobility providers and start-up companies in the fields of transportation and mobility. ZF electrifies a wide range of vehicle types. With its products, the company contributes to reducing emissions, protecting the climate as well as enhancing safe mobility.

About this position

Commodity purchasing is part of the global Commodity Purchasing team, responsible for the commodity casting (iron casting, high pressure die casting, etc). The Prime role is to develop and implement the most beneficial type of sourcing agreements for the specific commodity and to support the development of a network of best practice suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for commodity purchasing of iron casting, HPDC, in ASEAN area.
• Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management of the related commodity parts, thus identify regional commodity sourcing opportunities and parts that can be sourced from ASEAN suppliers.
• Work and cooperate within cross function team regionally and globally.
• Manage the commodity purchasing process for new products or localization of existing products through supplier search and commercial negotiations.
• Supporting the development and implementation of the global part family strategy, the supplier base and technology within the given responsibility.
• Execution and evaluation of requests for quotations.
• Execution of supplier ratings, in regard to SAZUR / ASL.
• Execution of negotiations with suppliers within the given guidelines, incl. annual cost savings target negotiations.
• Lead and organize multi-functional teams to carry out supplier reviews/ technical reviews.
• Initiation and preparation of sourcing cases for the Sourcing Decision Process, incl. data management in SWAT.
• Play a leading role in establishing and maintaining legally binding contracts and purchasing agreements for the commodities.
• Monitor the performance of the suppliers during program launch and through product life cycle and secure continuous improvement in supplier performance.
• Work with suppliers and cost engineering/ supplier management team to achieve “Best Practice” in cost, quality, service and delivery.
• Development and negotiation of Cost Reductions initiatives.
• Analyze ASEAN supply base to prepare and recommend suppliers to be added/ removed from the approved supplier list as well as nominate suppliers for the Strategic Supplier List.
• Continuously review cost performance to target.
• Nominate parts for Global Competitive Sourcing in order to achieve defined targets based on the “Operational Plan”.
• Contribute to projects and agreements with other purchasing and material departments, within ZF, in order to benefit from opportunities of synergy where appropriate.
• Maintain systems to support the sourcing function, e.g SWAT, MAPS, COPS, etc.

Requirements

• 3+ years; Experience in Purchasing of parts for automotive industry.
• Business Engineering, or similar.
• Fluent in English and Thai (writing and speaking).
• Deep knowledge of casting commodity technical, manufacturing, applications.
• Know How of automotive industry.
• Internal working environment and cross-functional communication.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel both domestically and international.