Title:  Senior Commodity Buyer, Vehicle Electric & Electronics

Reporting To:

Main Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Commodity Buyer, for Vehicle EE PU team, in UD Trucks Purchasing Vehicle, based in China.

Your mission is to drive both strategic & operational business plan, be in charge of sourcing, project deliverables and operational maintenance activities. We would like to welcome you to our team where 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional team to define and develop segment purchasing strategies.
• Lead cross-functional team to make supplier selection and negotiate agreements.
• Secure overall good supplier relationship through conducting business review meetings regularly.
• Close monitoring of supplier performance and take corrective actions where needed.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers, to secure the project deliveries on QDCF for both start-up projects and maintenance projects.
• Drive continuously on cost improvement activities, with good knowledge of UD trucks Production System. Generate cost savings through creativities and cross functional workshops, including engineering, logistics and plant.
• Drive and achieve the target on MCE/cost saving per truck, Delivery Precision, Contract Coverage, Local Content Requirements.
• 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

Required competencies:

• Lead cross-functional team to define and develop segment purchasing strategies.
• Negotiate supplier agreements and commercial issues.
• Cost analysis skills, be the expert in the assigned commodities on component cost management.
• Make and recommend the best business case
• Good knowledge on total cost ownership, including logistics and overall supply chain.
• Project management skills
• Coordinate and drive supplier management meetings.
• Act as supplier relationship host.
• Customer focus.
• Entrepreneur spirit.

Required qualifications:

• 6+ years’ experience in Purchasing and/or extensive negotiation experience with a supplier/customer relationship in auto Industry, EE part(starter motor, alternator, HVAC ) sourcing and development experience is a plus
• Knowledge of Financial analysis, Cost Management, Production & Supply chain and technology
• Business acumen, MS Office
• Strong team player, self-starter and the ability to take initiatives
• Fluent both English and Japanese, both written and spoken