Supervisor – Supply Chain – Seneca Battery

Supervisor – Supply Chain – Seneca Battery

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Ability to supervise a group of mid or senior level purchasing professionals
• Strong functional and technical skills
• Ability to travel 50% of the time
• Proficient in English
• University Diploma in related discipline or equivalent experience
• Ability to provide functional leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and management of certain global/regional commodity strategies designed to leverage BW collective purchasing power and maximize synergistic opportunities to optimize supplier performance
• Provide global leadership in the communication, implementation, coordination, and enforcement of commodity strategies
• Develops supplier capabilities to meet BW requirements
• Provides guidance and approval of basic supplier agreements
• Provide Leadership to Launch Readiness issues
• Develop and implement business process improvements
• Ensure commodity plan deliverables meet designed strategies
• Coordinates supplier relationship with internal functions (i.e. trouble shooting)
• Delivers budget, forecasts and LRP for their area of responsibility
• Responsible for ensuring the development and implementation of location(s) specific strategies and commodity forecasts
• Negotiate key supplier contracts
• Direct current production issues
• Develop strategies and actions and execute to achieve Budgeted cost reductions
• Ensures cost and performance objectives in line with existing strategies
• Career development and training
• Oversees/Manages and leads a small team of direct reports
• Manage talent within team including conducting performance reviews
• Responsible for talent/organization development

Preferred Qualifications

• C.P.M. Certified Purchasing Manager is a preferred certification