Strategic buyer

Strategic Buyer

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. The Strategic Sourcing Analyst is responsible for defining and implementing regional sourcing strategies for the EMEA region in order to reach the respective sourcing targets in delivery, productivity, cost, and quality. Moreover, this position is responsible for supplier negotiations, supplier capacity management, and supplier compliance with relevant TE requirements. Home-office based position with occasional travel to Trutnov.

Your main tasks include:

• Create a commodity strategy, under strong consideration of customer needs, that defines strategic suppliers into grow, fix and exit suppliers and maintains product footprint, incl. "make or buy"-analysis.
• Drive the attainment of relevant procurement KPI's, incl. Material Productivity, Lead time performance, delivery, and Quality.
• Responsible for improving material productivity by maintaining a strong cost saving pipeline to meet company targets.
• Responsible for contracting of supplier commercial agreements, incl. bailment, inventory management and supply agreements.
• Responsible for awarding new business and negotiation in collaboration with other teams and departments.
• Manage the Supplier Footprint, incl. reducing number of supplier and resourcing activities
• Collect and maintain capabilities and capacities of suppliers to avoid constraints
• Accountable for info record and PO accuracy and communicate relevant data to tactical buyer, incl. lead time, price and minimum order quantity (MOQ).
• Responsible for ensuring Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic suppliers in collaboration with other teams and departments and the drive of respective corrective actions.
• Ensure MOQ optimization for purchased components and establish supplier agreements, e. g. VMI, EDI, consignment, Scheduling Agreements frame order review, blanket PO
• Responsible for calculating Headwind impacts and applying for necessary approval
• Ensure NPI alignment to global sourcing commodity strategy and limit number of new suppliers
• Ensure that all suppliers meet TE requirements for compliance (RoHs, Reach, conflict minerals, supplier portal usage)
• Support insourcing activities lead by operations and participate in supplier quality audits

Your ideal background includes:

• 5+ years experience in procurement as buyer, including experience in preparation of negotiations
• Sourcing experience for relevant commodities is a plus
• Excellent problem solving skills, analytical skills, and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continues improvement attitude
• Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to work in a matrix environment with multi-cultural teams
• Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends
• Proven track record in negotiation skills
• Knowledge of regional and global supplier base for relevant commodities
• Advanced knowledge in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint
• English at negotiation level

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

Job Locations: Posting City: TRUTNOV Job Country: Czech Republic Travel Required: 10% to 25%