Responsibilities and Duties 

• Define and develop segment purchasing strategies.
• Perform sourcing activities, negotiate agreements and recommend supplier selection in Sourcing governance meetings within UD Trucks Purchasing. Lead cross-functional team to make supplier selection and negotiate agreements.
• Secure overall good supplier relationship through conducting business review meetings regularly.
• Monitor market and technology developments and address changes through the strategies
• Close monitoring of supplier performance and take corrective actions where needed.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers, to secure the project deliveries on QDCFTSR for both start-up projects and maintenance projects.
• Drive continuously on cost improvement activities. Generate cost savings through creativities and cross functional workshops, including engineering, logistics and plant.
• Drive and achieve the target on MCL/MCE, Delivery Precision, Contract Coverage, Local Content Requirements, BBBEE performance.
• Track raw material price trends for price adjustment with suppliers.
• Support to improve the customer focus by jointly solving the quality issues; improve PPM/QPM and QJ lead-time.
• Closely monitor market developments, trends and the best practices available in the market.
• Conduct Buyer network meetings with Buyers working on similar portfolio in regular intervals.

Minimum qualifications and experience :

• University degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering. Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• Previous experience in Automotive Purchasing
• Fluent in English, Strategic orientation, Strong negotiator, Business Acumen, Cost Management, Legal Management, Relevant process & system knowledge, Priority Setting, Integrity and Trust, Drive for results, Customer focus
• Lead cross-functional team to define and develop segment purchasing strategies.
• Lead Cost reduction activity Commercial, VA-VE , logistic, Total Delivery Cost.