タイトル:  Buyer, Service Parts

We are looking for a Buyer in UD Trucks Purchasing.

Your mission is to drive both strategic & operational business plans and be in charge of sourcing, project deliverables, and operational maintenance activities. We would like to welcome you to our team where a positive attitude, perseverance, and focus on continuous improvement are a must. You like doing business and you are result oriented, with a proven ability to establish targets and drive results.

We believe you are a supportive team player and are comfortable working with different cultures, people and also cross-functionally, taking the lead in various groups and situations. The ability to take ownership for your deliverables is a must, being solution-oriented and having an analytical mindset.

We will offer you a very dynamic, interesting and challenging job where you will be able to personally grow and develop your skills further.
We strive to be a multicultural organization. We welcome applicants which can even further increase our diversity.

Role and responsibilities

• Provide input to segment strategies both when defining strategies for the segments in his/her own scope and also when finding synergies with other relevant strategies developed in UD Trucks.
• Manage and negotiate product/processes changes during service market phase for suppliers.
• Execute, update and renew agreements with suppliers after End of Production.
• Perform daily purchasing activities related to supplier base management, production orders, logistics and financial flows to the suppliers.
• Identify innovative solutions to improve parts availability and customer value.
• Drive all relevant activities to deliver on QDCF-TSR target.

• Actively contribute to the cross-functional work on backorders recoveries including Vehicle Off Road.
• Monitor, identify and mitigate risks in cooperation with SQ&D team.
• Forecast cost evolution for scope of responsibility.
• Secure that suppliers understand and comply to UD requirements and procedures.
• Keep a close collaboration with Commodity buyer(s) for corresponding suppliers.
• Keep a close collaboration with UDTO SPOL material controller(s) for corresponding suppliers.
• Actively participate in hand overs between Commodity buyer and Service parts buyer when end of production for common parts purchased at supplier (from commodity to service parts).
• Responsible for tooling inventory actions towards suppliers for the type bound tooling within the purchasing responsibility.
• Responsible for annual review of status of type bound tooling within the purchasing responsibility and to request funding for replace and/or repair of these tools.

Required skill/competence:
Required:

Min 5 years of purchasing supply chain/logistics/material management experience
University degree in Business, Engineering or related field
Knowledge of Financial analysis, Cost Management, Production & Supply chain and technology
Business acumen, Customer focus
Strong team player, self-starter, priority setting and the ability to take initiatives
MS Office
Fluent in Japanese and Business level English

Preferable:
Strong experience of working for Automotive or related company
Project Management/Quality Management/Contract Management
Relevant process & system knowledge