Sr. Buyer (Direct Product)
BorgWarnerRayong, Thailand
Posted September 3, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
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Job Description
Lead the development and management of certain global/regional commodity strategies to maximize synergistic opportunities and optimize supplier performance. Manage supply base, negotiate supplier contracts, and drive cost reduction initiatives.
Requirements
- Lead the development and management of global/regional commodity strategies
- Manage supply base for existing production materials
- Negotiate key supplier contracts
- Drive cost reduction initiatives
- Manage supplier data for system including supplier contact, price, terms etc
- Manage value & nonvalue add permanent supplier changes
- Track and improve supplier performance – cost, quality, delivery actual
- Resolve commercial and capacity issues at suppliers
- Support global commodity strategies
- Manage cost of indirect materials
- Create ideas and implement cost reduction for indirect materials
- Analyze material pass through impact regular basis
- Recommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs
- Explore available technology and implements best practices related to purchasing activities
- Evaluate part design with engineering, quality and suppliers to obtain optimum efficiencies
- Manage and administrate multiple databases and systems important to the Purchasing function (SPS, SAP, Part Portal etc)
- Maintain supplier contact points as of the latest version
- Collect z-scores for local suppliers to clarify their financial status on regular basis
Benefits
- Competitive pricing
- Cost reductions
- Quality
- Supplier delivery performance