Dirección Within the scope of indirect commodities, develops requests for quotations, analyze Supplier responses, negotiate and implement supplier business awards in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil business units.
Creates commodity-level strategy and tactics to meet continuity of supply, cost reduction, and low cost country sourcing.
Works collaboratively with internal customers to understand and consolidate purchasing requirements from all Safran companies in the Americas region.
Develops market intelligence and validate commodity strategies, including type of management: Global, Country, Regional, and Local.
Conducts supplier identification, evaluation, selection, performance management, and supply base right-sizing.
Manage contract development and negotiation.
Manage key cost reduction programs. These programs could include such things as supplier changes, supplier relocations to low cost regions, negotiations, design changes, etc.
Delivers savings per the budget and forecast plan document and report savings.
Defines procedures, practices, processes and contract models (in collaboration with Legal) to best market standards for each commodity group.
Partners with the Senior Management Team and Safran Group teams to align purchasing with the overall business strategy
