Operational Buyer

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!With 30,000 team members located in 25 countries and with a 2021 revenue of €8 billion, Plastic Omnium is world leader in intelligent exterior systems, clean energy systems and customized complex modules.Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car. The Responsibilities of the "Operational Buyer" are :

• Manage purchase parts change control for post-launch programs :
• Support change control meeting for implementation of engineering changes
• Negotiate purchase parts pricing and tooling for engineering changes and capacity studies
• Responsible for supplier timing - tooling, PSW timing and parts delivery
• Prepare documents for Buyer award packages for design changes
• Responsible for issuing purchase orders and tool orders for engineering changes
• Support DCRM activities :
• Support DCRM team meetings for follow up on implementation of cost savings ideas
• Responsible for managing purchase parts change control required to implement cost saving ideas
• Support plant´s operation with resolution of issues related to suppliers :
• Lead commercial resolution of stop-ship situations
• Lead resolution of payment issues with suppliers
• Support plant MP&L teams to resolve delivery issues with suppliers
• Support plant quality teams to resolve quality issues with suppliers
• Make and support capacity studies and communicate them to program manager and implement additional actions if needed
• Support commodity buyers with communication with plant´s teams on the following initiatives :
• Outsourcing
• Insourcing
• Resourcing
• Program refreshes
• Market tests / make / buy studies
• Plant inventory reduction
• Service parts negotiation where supplier is not in long term strategy / coordination with service program manager
• Cancellation cost recovery. Operations to lead with support from commodity. Dependent on program phase can be program or operations buyer
• Follow up on prototypes or samples
• Participate in the costing for the new potential projects under quotation for OEMS.

Requirements

As a responsible company, Plastic Omnium pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.