Project Purchasing Manager Emea - Maranello, Italia - Swisslog

Swisslog

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Maranello, Italia

2 settimane fa

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Piero Bianchi

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Descrizione

The Project Purchasing Manager is responsible for the complete purchasing process during the whole value chain from Sales and Design phase, through the Realisation phase and ending with the Customer Service and Spare Part activities.

The main areas are within mechanical and electronic sub-systems for Swisslog automated warehouse solutions, adhering to international and local purchasing strategies.

The Project Purchasing function is responsible for purchasing of general services and contracts related to Swisslog's daily operations.

The function is responsible for the complete procurement process of sub-systems and services related to Swisslog project execution, achieving the targets of quality, cost, delivery time.

To be effective the role requires participation in the overall WDS value-chain from Sales to Realisation to Customer Service.

Purchasing of subsystems and services can be racks, building equipment, Conveyors, Cranes, Robotics, special machinery, electrical and mechanical assembly, various HW & SW Automation supplies.

The function is responsible for developing and implementing strategy plans and conducting supplier research building upon and managing the supplier relationship.

In addition to the above areas of responsibility widen to offers and suppliers evaluation, price negotiation, Purchase Orders emission, collaboration with colleagues in quality control and in overall supply planning and review cost calculation tools for the sales phase.

Short Facts:

Maranello, Italy
Procurement
Permanent Position
Make an impact:
Core Actions
Implement procurement strategy and policy
Continually develop expertise in logistic solutions to support growth for new projects
Monitor macro trends in supplier and contract base and implement plans to react
Maintain procurement files and track Purchasing activity and measurements
Collaborate and actively participate in make or buy decisions and facilitate outsourcing activities
Support the sourcing process by maintaining the purchasing activities; create effective routines and make them: usable, known, accepted, understood, available and used
Keep an overall view of the process to avoid suboptimizing of isolated purchasing activities
Analyse processes and their quality, performance and propose improvements. This includes collecting, analysing and communicating the findings and the suggested improvements
Collaborate as an integral part of the sales team to achieve sales results
Collaborate as an integral part of the realisation team in NB and CS to achieve project results

Lead the purchasing processes in the local region

Process owner of purchasing at the three locations
Be the active leader and manager for purchasing in the three core processes (1) Sales and Design, (2) Realization and (3) Customer Service
Launch of Request for Offers (RFQ)
Compare the offers
Negotiate the suppliers
Decision together with other stakeholder (purchasing committee)
Participate in the local Risk Reviews
Contracting and placing the Purchase Order (PO)
Discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services with suppliers and others to determine cause of problem and take corrective and preventative actions, involve relevant departments (Quality, Realization, CS)
Evaluate suppliers after project realization together with Project Manager and Quality Manager

Supplier Management, Contracting

Support Regional purchasing manager to set up a joint supplier network by evaluating current suppliers in different countries
Look into volume bundling effects for various projects
Analyse risks that are put into a specific supplier
To negotiate contracts / T&Cs to be applied for project purpose
To support in negotiating groupwide agreements with suppliers (frame agreements, ST&C)

Coordinate within WDS Purchasing

Align purchasing strategies, processes and tools
Close purchasing collaboration within WDS
Optimize governance: to focus on key suppliers; bundling volumes in order to achieve best conditions
Review, develop and manage Regional Supplier Base
Feedback to the global sourcing in relevant material groups (through network tools)
Share knowledge regarding failing sales/projects and learn how to avoid them

Project Purchasing Reporting

Update of the monthly project purchasing reporting for the assigned projects
Proactive support to enable the reporting (master data) to be retrieved in SAP
Measures in order to achieve the defined purchasing targets (e.g. savings, governance)

SAP

Use of SAP rules and guidelines and proactive contribution to the key user forum for project purchasing
Give input for developing and optimizing SAP reports
Give input for improving the master data generated within WDS (material master data, material classifications, vendor categorization) (Set requirements and support in having them implemented)

Results orientation