Commodity Purchasing Specialist- Plastic Injection

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FORVIA HELLA is a listed international automotive supplier. As a company of the FORVIA Group, FORVIA HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and vehicle electronics and, with the Lifecycle Solutions Business Group, also covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles. With currently around 34,000 employees at over 125 locations, the company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of €8.0 billion in the fiscal year 2025.

YOUR TASKS

• Analyze the purchasing market with respect to business division targets and requirements as well as Prepare and update the supplier matrix, prepare qualified supplier evaluations. Build up alternative suppliers to reduce costs, achieve technical, quality and other defined targets, according to business division requirements in agreement with cross functional responsible involved.
• Implementation and supporting preparation of a purchasing strategy for the material group in defined strategy team and Establish a standard and optimized supplier basis to realize synergies by bundling purchasing volume, concentrating on efficient suppliers and optimizing the process chain.
• Define material cost changes (budgeting) in agreement with the HCs and superior in order to create an aligned planning basis and to achieve business division objectives.
• Generate measures and support the measure generation for commercial and technical optimization of components or purchase volume to reduce costs and improve quality and security of supply.
• Analyze suppliers in cooperation with the suppliers, identify opportunities for improvement and derive corresponding qualification measures, involving internal organizational units, in order to optimize the process chain between the supplier and Hella.
• Ensure transparency and consolidation of supplier and material data in order to guarantee a standardized data basis available to everyone.
• Consolidate the annual material requirements in the group of goods and carry out central negotiations with suppliers (granting) to achieve optimum purchasing prices through bundling.
• Leading in initiating talks and in carrying out negotiations and preparing contracts to reduce costs, as well as to optimize procedures between supplier and Hella and to enforce Hella interests taking into account schedules, quality, quantity and delivery conditions.
• Summarize and document purchasing activities derived from the purchasing targets to trigger and implement the necessary measures.

Your Qualifications

• Responsible material Group : plastic, injection, resin . Basic requirement : very familiar with plastic Supplier base in automotive industry. More than 5 years Commodity buyer experience with plastic injection . other material group if has experience is a plus.
• Technical Background -Bachelor at least.
• Automotive industry experience at least 5 years .
• Good English communication skill for Daily work with global colleagues

Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company.

FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity.

Please send us your application via our career portal, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, with the reference number req18740.

Monica Ji

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