Commodity Buyer Consultants Services

Volvo Group Trucks Purchasing, is a passionate team of approximately 1400 people located on all continents globally, provides competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products and services that add real business value for the truck brands of the Volvo Group. You are never alone.


You have here a great opportunity to join the Contingent Workforce team as Commodity Buyer for Consultants Services such as IT consultants, Engineering Services consultants and temporary workers.


Commodity Buyer is a key position within VOLVO Group Trucks Purchasing. You will interact with different Volvo entities in Sweden, France and Belgium, among others and your contribution is key to secure the deliveries of our projects. You will have a continental purchasing responsibility which will focus on areas such as: optimizing the supplier base, contribute and implement segment strategy, securing competitive and quality secured agreements, developing best practice purchasing processes, benchmarking and reporting with the aim to drive continuous improvement within the segment.


An important part of the job is also to interact and collaborate with other parts of the Volvo Group and represent purchasing in related key stakeholder forums.


Responsibilities
Manage the segment(s) in a QDCFTSR mindset.
Contribute to the development of the segment strategy and purchasing process to support Volvo’s strategic objectives.
Strengthening Volvo’s competitive advantage by understanding the business needs and the supplier market.
Manage and develop the supplier base, using categorization, segmentation, evaluation, etc. in order to establish the appropriate levels of relationship.
Prepare and report Key Performance Indicators development to key stakeholders.
Lead or support large/regional/global sourcing projects or ad-hoc purchases within the segment.
Drive optimization, synergies and share best practices within the Volvo Group.
Negotiate upcoming request and contracts with suppliers.

Personal Profile
We would like to welcome you to our team where positive attitude, perseverance and focus on continuous improvement are a must.
We believe you are a supportive team player and are comfortable working with different cultures, people and also cross functionally.
The ability to take ownership of various tasks is necessary and problem solving skills in combination with analytical mind set is a must. We also think that you are result oriented and like doing business.
We can offer you a very dynamic, interesting and challenging job where you will be able to personally grow and develop your skills.

Overall Requirements
Master of Science or Business Administration
Excellent spoken and written English
Strong negotiation skills
Experience of working with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Project management knowledge
Motivated by change management and ability to drive change

For more information please contact
Christophe Genouel, Manager Contingent Workforce IPS, +33 665860576