Commodity Buyer

1 month ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Randstad Full time

Position: Commodity Buyer / Procurement Specialist
Type: Permanent Full-Time
Salary: $75,000 to 78,000

The company is a large manufacturer operating in the automotive industry in North America.

Do you have at least 5 years of proven work experience as a Commodity Buyer/Procurement Specialist/ Sourcing specialist?
Do you have experience working in the manufacturing industry? (preferably automotive manufacturing)
Do you have solid negotiation and communication skills with external and internal stakeholders?

If you answered 'YES' to all of these questions, this role might be for you

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Advantages
In this Commodity Buyer role in Windsor, ON you will have the following benefits:

2 weeks annual vacation
- Competitive coverage plan for Health, Dental, and Life Insurance
- Vision care
- Great work culture
- Amazing growth and upskilling opportunities

Responsibilities
In this Commodity Buyer role in Windsor, ON you will have the following day-to-day responsibilities:

  • Define, develop and implement strategy for the assigned commodity, including management and optimization of the supplier panel.
  • Lead the negotiations process including timelines and facilitate the decision-making process. Negotiate best contract (commercial and technical package) for Procurement requirements. Ensure commercial gatekeeping during implementation.
  • Work with the engineering team during early stage of design to influence cost and lead time. Promote standardization, modularization, and upstream integration.
  • Drive cross-functional team to perform Supplier capacity/capability assessments.
  • Work with critical and/or challenged suppliers to improve On Time Delivery and First Pass Yield to target levels. Act as an escalation point for the Production Buyers, and manage critical supplier recovery schedules to meet organization's demand requirements.
  • Understand and track performance of the organizations spend, supply market, costs, and tiers of suppliers.
  • Conduct and evaluate competitive intelligence, market reports, trade periodicals and sales promotion materials and visit trade shows, showrooms, factories and product design events.
  • Support development of business cases and track supplier performance and cost savings.
  • Manage the business review process with suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance and the future business needs of the sectors are aligned

Qualifications
As the successful candidate for the Commodity Buyer role in Windsor, ON role you will demonstrate the following qualifications:

  • 5-10 years' of purchasing experience within a manufacturing industry (preference in automotive).
  • Technical college diploma and / or university degree
  • SCMP designation or equivalent preferred
  • Require highly effective skills in organization, planning and communication and the ability to work in a team environment
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills are mandatory
  • Advanced computer skills with emphasis on MS Office applications, SharePoint, Electronic Project Management Systems, including data base manipulation

Summary
IMPORTANT: ONLY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CONTACTED AS THIS IS A VERY SPECIALIZED AND NICHE ROLE.

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