Job Description

Purchasing Specialist (M/F/D) - V


Location Chennai - Tamil Nadu, India
FORVIA HELLA is a listed, international automotive supplier. Coming together with Faurecia in the FORVIA Group, we build the world's seventh largest supplier of automotive technologies. As a global market leader in high-growth areas, FORVIA employs 157,000 people worldwide. FORVIA HELLA therein stands for high-performance lighting technology and automotive electronics. At the same time, we cover a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles with our Business Group Lifecycle Solutions. With around 37,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of EUR 8.1 billion on a preliminary basis in the fiscal year 2023.

YOUR TASKS

A Purchasing Tasks



• Analyze the purchasing market considering the needs and requirements of the relevant Product Centers and Hella Companies. Prepare and update supplier matrix, prepare qualified supplier evaluations and support buildup of alternative suppliers to meet or overachieve purchasing targets in the dimensions of "Cost", "Time" and "Quality" in alignment with the responsible party from Product Centers and Business Division
• Support in preparing and implement a purchasing strategy for up to medium complex material groups with defined strategy teams. Establish a standard and optimized supplier basis to realize synergies by bundling purchasing volume, concentrating on efficient suppliers and optimizing the process chain
• Negotiate supplier frame contracts, define sourcing concept and realize sourcing activities incl. but not limited to sending RfQs, negotiating and nominating suppliers for tools and components within the material group (new projects, lifetime extensions, change management, etc.)
• Support definition of material cost changes (budgeting) in agreement with the Hella Companies and superior to create an aligned planning basis and to achieve business division objectives
• Analyse suppliers in cooperation with the suppliers, identify opportunities for improvement and derive corresponding qualification measures, involving internal organizational units, in order to optimize the process chain between the supplier and Hella
• Ensure global transparency and consolidation of supplier and material data to guarantee a standardized data basis available to everyone
• Consolidate the annual material requirements within a material group and prepare central negotiations with suppliers to achieve optimum purchasing prices through bundling
• Support initiation of talks, negotiations and preparation of contracts to reduce costs, as well as to optimize procedures between supplier and Hella and to enforce Hella interests taking into account schedules, quality, quantity and delivery conditions
• Support initiation of talks, carry out negotiations and prepare contracts to reduce costs, as well as to optimize procedures between supplier and Hella and to enforce Hella interests considering schedules, quality, quantity and delivery conditions
• Support in aligning tasks and decisions with Material Group Manager and supervisor if necessary

B Operative Purchaser

• Ensure that the Purchasing Targets for defined Hella Company in the dimensions of "Cost", "Time" and "Quality" are being achieved or overachieved by minimizing the total costs (Total Cost of Ownership) during series phase
• Know the Hella-values as well as purchasing standards, processes and tools required to ensure a stable and target oriented production during series phase
• Execute series purchasing processes for material group specific materials, including but not limited to material cost planning, supplier assessment, supplier capacity monitoring, engineering change management, support for critical parts management, series material ordering outside ERP-runs and transfer responsibility during product relocations
• Ensure sufficient production capacity for series business at supplier, managing stock increases, packaging and logistics related topics in case of bottlenecks or insolvencies
• Support the identification and achievement of cost potentials resulting from Re-Design-to-Cost (ReDtC). For that, an understanding of the product engineering process and the material manufacturing process is needed
• Participate in the transfer of responsibility from Strategic Purchasing to Operative Purchasing
• Support in implementing purchasing and material group strategies

C Project Manager



• Ensure that the Purchasing Targets for defined technically medium complex projects in the dimensions of "Cost", "Time" and "Quality" are being achieved or overachieved by steering and managing any kind of project specific purchasing activities for defined projects incl. project related SQA activities
• Know and apply the Hella-values as well as purchasing standards, processes and tools along the product engineering process
• Support in minimizing the total costs (Total Cost of Ownership) by an early integration of the Project Manager in the product engineering process (PEP). Optimizing development timeline by an early integration of approved suppliers in the simultaneous engineering process
• Support in challenging the technical solutions for purchased parts in terms of cost efficiency and challenge the project team to ensure and overachieve targeted costs. Supporting the identification and achievement of cost potentials resulting from Design-to-Cost (DtC). For that, an understanding of the product engineering process and the material manufacturing process is needed
• Support in driving pre-series purchasing processes for specific Hella products, challenging the project team to keep project milestone important for the execution of purchasing tasks on-time, e.g. Concept/System Release and preparation of RfQ documents. Procuring prototypes if necessary and ensuring pre-series material procurement (C-Sample process)
• Support in transferring of responsibly for material procurement to the logistics department of the Hella production plant after released Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• Support in aligning tasks and decisions with Business Partner and/or supervisor if necessary

D Communication

• Support in ensuring and coordinating adequate information flow between project team and MGS colleagues responsible for the project specific sourcing activities



YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

+ Professional education or special diploma
+ 2 up to 3 years' work experience
+ Good in communication




Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company.




FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity. HELLA India Automotive Pvt Ltd.

Gokulakrishnan Vijayakumar

DLF IT PARK, BLOCK 5, 1/124, 5th FLOOR, POONAMALEE ROAD

Chennai