Buying Accessories Parts (Plastic, Life Style & Car Care)

As a professional responsible for Sourcing, Development, and Procurement of Accessories parts including Plastic, Lifestyle, and Car Care components, your role involves ensuring timely sourcing and development. You will be engaging in negotiations with suppliers to settle costs for various parts at competitive prices. Additionally, you are expected to comprehend cost reduction concepts such as Yield and VAVE to support in minimizing costs. Monitoring project schedules, conducting MIS reporting activities, creating budgets, assessing vendor capacity, and planning are part of your responsibilities. From a technical perspective, familiarity with Zero-Based Costing and understanding of component development procedures are essential. You should possess a basic knowledge of plastics technologies, Lifestyle, and car care parts, with prior experience handling similar components in a supply chain capacity within the automotive industry. Proficiency in ERP systems for scheduling, price monitoring, and vendor management is required. Furthermore, you must be adept at managing suppliers, including negotiating commercial agreements. Skills in Excel, MS Word, and effective communication with suppliers to monitor the development process are vital. Your role demands strong negotiating skills, the ability to analyze commercial information, and propose effective strategies. You should excel in evaluating alternatives using Cost-benefit analysis, demonstrate strategic thinking, and adopt a 360-degree approach to business situations. An execution-oriented mindset, along with problem-solving skills, is crucial for success in this position. Behavioral competencies play a significant role in your effectiveness. Objectivity, excellent interpersonal skills, clear communication, presentation abilities, achievement orientation, teamwork, and networking skills are key attributes that you should exhibit in your interactions and collaborations within the organization.,