Category Buyer Direct Purchasing

1 month ago

Caroga Lake, United States ITT Full time

Riepilogo posizione:

Who are we?

We solve it is our purpose: we transform unique ideas into innovative and sustainable solutions, helping the world move forward. We are at the side of our customers in solving their challenges. We design and develop customized technology solutions for the energy, transportation, and industrial markets. Founded in 1920, ITT is headquartered in the US, with employees in more than 35 countries and sales in a total of approximately 125 countries. We are about 10,000 employees, and we count more than 1,700 active patents & applications. For more information, visit www.itt.com.

What is your role?

The Category Buyer is responsible of a wide range of activities, from administrative to tactical and strategic, involved with the purchase of brake pad components, that require the skills to identify cost-saving opportunities, create competitive environments, effectively negotiate, and make contracts to assure continuous availability of all required products to support the company demand. He/She manages product sourcing strategy.

Responsabilit essenziali:

Role scope:

The Category Buyer will be in charge of:

  • She/He leads the categories supplier panel defining together with the Advanced Purchasing Buyer the long term strategy of the categories of metal stamping, rubber-steel stamping and surface treatment.
  • Negotiate contracts implementation as consignment stock and full price list
  • Embrace the cost breakdown negotiation approach linked to the main product cost drivers
  • Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity (e.g vendor agreements, material records)
  • Ensures procurement execution (transactional operations) in alignment with internal processes
  • Perform cost reduction opportunity creation and implementation to meet annual targets
  • Ensures, through proper negotiations with the supplier, the best purchasing conditions (price, means of payment and delivery deadlines)
  • Solicit and evaluate proposals
  • Meet day-to-day short-term objective and resolve issues through immediate action or short term planning
  • Support on solving supplier issues such as account payable resolution, quality defects, past due deliveries and risks related to production
  • Keep track and report cost savings or avoidances
  • Ensure in advance the procurement involvement and increase the involvement itself
  • Plans and manages companys overall sourcing strategy
  • Develops and administers an efficient global supply chain and monitors inventory for all global products and assists to increase growth
  • Conducts market research, as well as creating cost estimates and forecasts.

Apart from common activities as:

  • Disruptive approach
  • Teamworking oriented
  • Empathic approach
  • Process improvement and procedures
  • Work with suppliers, manufacturers and internal departments
  • Maintain a database of approved suppliers
  • Build and maintain relationships with suppliers and vendors
  • Track, measure and analyze company expenditures
  • Determine and track KPIs
  • Provide reports for upper management
  • Adhere to laws, rules and regulations
  • Assists with development, implementation and management of effective procurement best practices, policies and procedures
  • Establish strong collaborative supplier and business relationships to ensure maximum support to the business
  • Supplier performance management to ensure adherence to terms and conditions
  • Collaborating with business leaders, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to implement agreed to strategies and provide performance oversight
Requisiti di posizione:

Qualification / Requirements:

  • Degree in technical/economical disciplines
  • Professional use of MS Office tools
  • Excellent knowledge of market analysis, sourcing category strategy, supplier relationship management 'should-cost' models, and negotiations, supplier continuous improvement programs/Lean Initiatives
  • Excellent facilitation and issue resolution skills; ability to drive consensus
  • Ability to interpret and adjust to situations that involve conflicting goals
  • Ability to effectively prioritize work
  • Strong business, leadership, planning and organizing skills; including the ability to provide innovative, strategic ideas to management, communicate value, gain approval and implement effectively
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to effectively manage across multiple organizational levels to achieve project objectives or milestones
  • Ability to participate as a team-member as well as leader in a fast paced, global team oriented environment
  • Fluency in written and spoken English, other languages are a plus
  • Problem solving skills combined with a strategic mindset

What do we offer?

We are known for using our Impeccable character, Bold thinking and Collective know-how to provide our customers with highly engineered solutions to complex problems. Given that, you can be sure you will work alongside talented and diverse colleagues from various teams. You will be surrounded by a curious, entrepreneurial and innovative environment where people have the opportunity to learn from each other by valuing different ideas, opinions and experiences. Day to day, your manager will be your partner and coach in your personal and professional development. We will trust you to do what it takes to deliver outstanding results.

ITT Diversity Equity and Inclusion Principles - In ITT our culture leads us to ensure same opportunity for all, leveraging diversities and building an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of the gender, race and ethnic, religion, sexual orientation, disability, parental status, or social origin.

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