Location: New Bern,NC, USA
BSH Home Appliances Corporation - Top Employer US 2024Tomorrow is our home.At BSH, People Matter. Bring your unique skills, capabilities, and experiences to our dynamic teams where your contributions will drive our innovation culture. We strive to be a workplace that values people and supports opportunities for continuous professional and personal growth. As a leading manufacturer of home appliance brands Bosch, Gaggenau, and Thermador, we prioritize having a consumer centric mindset and creating positive experiences for the consumer throughout all interactions with our products and services. Join us now and give your career a home.You Belong Here.Strategic Buyer - LogisticsNew Bern, NC / Full-timeYour responsibilitiesRole is specific to Logistics.Responsible for operational, tactical, and strategic purchasing activities for the assigned commodity area, including:Negotiating, updating prices, contracting etc...Scouting suppliers and proposing to regional / global responsible within the TCO approachGenerating cost cutting projects and presenting to stakeholders and x-functions.Drive the price reduction processNegotiate for assigned suppliers with Key Account responsibility to drive best cost position of all BSH customer factories, and present to local and global the price updates.Job FunctionsPurchase materials, supplies, services at most favorable, sustainable, flexible and feasible terms.```{=html}``` - Initiate best cost country and localization initiatives, supporting cost benefit.```{=html}``` - Conduct capacity check activities to ensure availability of technical capacity allocated at local suppliers (global suppliers, where having key account responsibility)```{=html}``` - Support and Execute material group strategies and tailor supplier portfolio to BSH requirements, short and mid-term.```{=html}``` - Perform market research, scouting suppliers, new technologies (based on product / project requirements), etc...Negotiation power of >$20million, annually, for more than 1 factory. Act as a supplier key account with regional commodity management responsibility (US, MX, Canada or the Americas). This includes low/medium technical complexity components with high impact (such as raw materials Steel, plastic resin for Direct Materials and Real Estate, MRO, MaE and Marketing for Indirect Mat