Purchaser

Purchaser

At Purchasing, you are part of a global team with the mission to develop and maintain a world-class supplier base. Ensuring the supply of materials and services - at the right cost, quality and technology - is essential for the success of Volvo Car Group. Ultimately, it's all about cooperating with people inside and outside the company to create a superior experience for the people who buy and drive a Volvo.

The group Indirect Purchasing is responsible for the purchasing of all non-production materials and services to all our staff and plants. We are now looking for a new Purchaser to the Maintenance Repair Operations Europe team. The Maintenance Repair Operations Europe team consists of seven Purchasers with the mission to purchase maintenance, spare parts/equipment, services, chemicals and replacements with quality to best price and with the most favourable commercial setup. We work closely together with the Maintenance and Inventory and Manufacturing Engineering.

This Purchaser role within Maintenance Repair Operations focuses on spare parts towards our car plants for the areas, heavy machinery and equipment, service and repairs and all replacement and complementary buys for special dealer tools. You will be an important part of creating and maintaining our strategic business plan within the spare parts area as well as identifying new opportunities and securing best practice within the area. You will also cooperate with the Indirect Purchasing buyers in China and USA to some extent. The supply base is global though a majority are situated in Europe your main stake holder will be our inventories as well as Volvo Cars. It is important that you have a good commercial sense and holistic understanding.

Main responsibilities

* Find the best commercial outcome for Volvo Car Group specific to your commodities
* Work for constant improvement and increase of efficiency in accordance to Volvo Car Corporation's overall strategies
* Support Strategic Buyer within the Commodity Business Plan on assigned commodities, including implementation and follow-up
* Develop relationships with key suppliers to ensure best pricing, quality and delivery
* Ensure the market intelligence and the technical trends for concerned commodities
* Validate new supplier introduction within your commodities
* Perform procurement according to defined strategies and frameworks
* Negotiate and sign agreements
* Lead special task force assignments

Required qualifications

* Economic or Technical university degree or equivalent
* Experience from negotiations in with focus on commercial targets
* Fluent in English, written and spoken
* Driver's license, B-level
* Technical interest, knowledge and understanding is an asset
* Experience from working within the automotive industry is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Customer focused and business acumen
* Strategic understanding and thinking
* Engaged, energetic and target oriented
* Strong ability for team work
* Ability to drive and complete tasks independently
* Confidence to act in an international environment
* Communicative
* Positive mind-set

About Volvo Car Group
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Contact
In this recruitment process we are collaborating with Randstad Sourceright. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Charlotte Cohn by e-mail charlotte.cohn@randstadsourceright.se note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted and that your application documents should be written in English.

Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than March 5th, 2017.