Operational Buyer- 2, 5 year contract

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macro trends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

Skills and qualifications:
• Highly experienced Purchasing professional (minimum 3 years) with technical knowledge / Bachelor or equivalent degree
• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in the Automotive Industry (with ideally in 3 years in Purchasing)
• Proven effectiveness in working in a global, multicultural environment>- Working experience with SAP (or other system) environment (SAP would be a big plus)
• Very well skilled with MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Projects, Word.
• Ability to travel (plane, car), even within short notice
• 3rd language (on top of native tongue and English) appreciated: French, German
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to communicate concisely and act in a multicultural and cross-functional environment at all levels inside and outside the company

Please note that the initial contract is for a period of 2.5 years with the possibility of prolongation.

Main responsibilities:
•Improves Region competitiveness through cost reductions in liaison with Commodity Organization:
• Supports Commodity in productivity objectives and capacity gap analysis.
• Suggests HLRR opportunities to commodity & participates to VE ideas generation for Regional Projects.
• Executes VE, HLRR, logistics productivity actions in line with AOP requirements and in collaboration with Commodity
organization.
• Manages post-SOP Engineering changes with suppliers in relation with.
• Executes suppliers selection process on HLRR projects.
• Provides input to commodity to support supplier prospection needs identification.
• Prepares and updates pricing information in SAP.
• Defines and executes first level of actions of gap closure plan (capacity & productivity).
• Supports Commodity organization to reach the Region negotiation objectives.>• Supports Commodity in supplier performance review and action plan tracking.
• Collects capacity data from suppliers.
• Handles logistics / capacity / quality issues in the region as the first sourcing interface of plant supply chain & Quality
(according to escalation process). Validates and negotiates charge-back amounts below
• Implement Mitigation action plan in the Region.
• Pilot supplier relationship role as KSC (Key Supplier Contact), when assigned by Commodity (delegation).