Sr Buyer

Position Title:

Sr. Buyer

Job Summary:

Main roles & responsibilities: This position aims to identify cost reductions opportunities, ensure supplier's good performance (cost, delivery, quality, warranty), act to support new Product Introduction team within purchasing, support supplier development team as well as raise and lead sub-commodities strategies regionally and globally. Direct report to Global Category Manager. This Category Buyer will support the Regional and Global Team in order to comply with local and global strategies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage relationships with key suppliers. Be closer to them specially due to capacity restrictions. Understand their needs and act to support as maximum as AGCO can; Reach cost savings targets, support process improvement initiatives and assure cost management avoiding cost divergencies;
• Identify best sources for part quotation, assure RFQ on time/cost/delivery selecting best supplier for AGCO needs assuring local and global alignment prior sourcing approval;
• Support Global Engine Components team and all departments as required; Support regional process improvement and implement global best practices; Lead main negotiations with big competitors for this commodity and develop LTA and cost reduction with them;
• Increase and accelerate localization projects in alignment with global strategy;
• Manage tactical implementation of the global commodity strategy and provide a bridge from operational level of purchasing to strategic sourcing

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration/Comex or any other business area;
• Portuguese and advanced level of English is the minimum requirement, additional languages (French, German, Italian, Finnish) are a plus;
• Knowledge in MS Office, mainly Excel and PPT;
• Communication, Negotiation experience in Purchasing (4 year minimum), hands on and result driven;
• Good Interpersonal skills;
• Experience and knowledge in Engine Components commodity will be a differential.

Your benefits

• Medical and dental assistance;
• Private pension;
• Meal and food voucher;
• Life insurance;
• PROPAR
• Others..

Your place of work

• Based in Mogi das Cruzes, SP. 

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