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About the role
- Lead Buyer – Strategic Sourcing overseeing procurement processes for STIHL. Collaborating with suppliers and negotiating contracts to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for coordinating the procurement of multiple, moderately complex commodities to support production and operations.
- Reviews and analyzes procurement requirements and places orders accordingly, using appropriate systems
- Analyzes the market for assigned commodities, tracks price indexes, and forecasts future supplier market trends, and mitigates risks
- Researches and develops competent suppliers of high quality products and services by preparing bids, proposals, or other informational requests that contain specifications and deliverables
- Must be comfortable negotiating, redlining, and managing contracts across assigned commodities.
- Monitors and analyzes potential and current suppliers for financial and performance risks
- Leads quarterly business reviews with key suppliers to track and monitor performance metrics
- Leads cross functional sourcing teams for RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs coordinating the efforts end to end from requirements/performance definition to final supplier selection
- Is a champion in the organization for Purchasing policies and procedures, guiding internal customers, stakeholders, and suppliers
- Executes commercial evaluation of proposals and conducts negotiations of contracts that include price, scope, schedule, and other commercial terms and conditions
- Drives strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers acting as a resource and main point of contact
- Contribute to the technical review and clarifications with supplier and provide innovative solutions to solve highly complex supply/supplier problems.
- Works with suppliers to resolve product or service delivery problems
- Perform comprehensive analyses of the supplier’s financial stability, technical competence, capacity and manufacturing/performance capability.
- Is able to demonstrate consistent cost savings results and meet company targets.
- Proactively performs supplier management activities through business reviews, supplier visits, and ongoing risk assessments.
- Acts as the voice of the customer and able to clearly communicate the company’s needs and demands to the suppliers.
- Visits supplier locations as needed to negotiate prices, review and analyze operations, and check quality, evaluating short-term and long-term ability of suppliers to meet STIHL expectations.
- Maintains records and documentation pertaining to past activities, order specifications, supplier specifications and performance histories, etc. and provides information to management as needed.
- Performs continued supplier market analysis to determine trends, risks, and opportunities and develops a strategy to develop new or existing suppliers and drive costs out of the supply chain.
- Cooperates with the STIHL Purchasing Group worldwide by sharing pertinent data and cost analyses as required, in order to establish optimal global supply chain management and commodity strategies.
- Attends training classes, special technical and administration courses, seminars, exhibits and trade shows as needed in order to maintain currency with respect to technical and professional skills.
- Continues to drive innovative process improvements and efficiencies within the purchasing role and as it pertains to the commodities purchased.
- Works with senior commodity buyers or supervisor for more advanced/complex topics
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Procurement, Business, or other relevant area a plus
- 4 years of related experience
- Strong knowledge of commercial terms and conditions and structuring contracts and payment/cancellation schedules to company best interests.
- Highly refined negotiating skills.
- Documented track record of successfully negotiating complex, high dollar contracts for products or services.
- Demonstrated track record of being proactive, self-motivated, willing to go the extra mile.
- Planning, organizing and analyzing data to build recommendations on sourcing strategies with implications for vendor selection, contract terms and negotiating position.
- Ability to perform within an international industry and global purchasing network.
- Advanced leadership and teamwork skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills at all organizational levels.
- Proficient at all MS Office applications
- Experience with SAP and Ariba preferred
Benefits
- Competitive pay with multiple bonus opportunities and potential for annual merit increases
- Excellent health benefits including Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Onsite Health & Wellness Center for employees and eligible family members
- Company-paid Life Insurance and Short & Long-Term Disability
- Robust retirement offerings including: A fully vested Pension Plan after 5 years, A 401(k) with generous employer match
- Paid time off including 11 Paid Holidays
- A strong culture of stability, community, and innovation
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