Indirect Purchasing (IdP)- Regional Buyer

FORVIA HELLA is a listed, international automotive supplier. Coming together with Faurecia in the FORVIA Group, we build the worlds seventh largest supplier of automotive technologies. As a global market leader in high-growth areas, FORVIA employs 157,000 people worldwide. FORVIA HELLA therein stands for high-performance lighting technology and automotive electronics. At the same time, we cover a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles with our Business Group Lifecycle Solutions. With around 37,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of 8.1 billion on a preliminary basis in the fiscal year 2023.

1. Be part of the IdP Commodity team projects:

• Participate to the projects and competitive bids led by the IdP Commodity team. Integrate the needs of the region. Contribute to data collection, specifications, and evaluation of the results.
• Take in charge the implementation of the commodity contracts in the Region. Ensure implementation follow-up and regular audits of the contract compliance.

2. Optimize purchases portfolio not covered by corporate contracts or projects in progress:

• Consolidate recurrent local needs, globalize competitive bids, reduce supplier base and manage it through consistent contracts, at regional level, involving Legal when necessary
• Take in charge local one-shot needs, projects, negotiation and contracts
• Guarantee supplier contracts are consistent, involving the legal department when necessary or following their guidelines, in order to protect the company.
• Ensure follow-up of contract application and regular audit of contract compliance. Systematically deploy a reporting system with suppliers.
• Make sure that the above actions are consistent with the Commodity strategy and identify subjects that could be generalized at national or corporate level to get a better benefit.

3. Lead or contribute to productivity and cost saving actions:

• Work closely with the Plant Managers and the Plant departments to identify and run saving actions beyond price negotiation, such as: best practices implementation, consumption reduction, technical optimization, standardization
• Lead productivity action plan involving suppliers
• Developing annual rate contracts, wherever applicable.

4. Manage the administrative purchase order process:

• Be responsible of the purchase order process
• Guarantee the compliance of the purchasing process with Faurecia core procedures (FCP) rules in the various phases: competitive bids and supplier selection, purchase order process, as well as with the Code of Ethics.
• Manage the supplier issues under purchasing responsibility, such as: prices agreement to be updated in the IT system, price discrepancies between purchase order price and invoice prices.
• Manage the supplier issues: repetitive problem in quantity delivered, repetitive contract non-compliance in services contract,

5. Apply the methodology and IT tools defined and implemented by Group IdP, such as:

• Project management and associated reporting process, including PAP MRO
• Contract Database, to store and manage all contracts
• Hands on in SAP Ariba tool shall be an added advantage

• Minimum 10-15 years experience as an Indirect purchasing Buyer in an industrial environment (experience in automotive industry shall be an added advantage)
• Minimum education level: B.E / B.Tech (MBA shall be an added advantage)
• Results oriented with strong written and oral communications skills
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization