Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Location: Saint-Blaise

Responsibilities

• Drive cost reduction, price, and contract negotiation, and Component/Supplier Selection Process for electronic components together with Global Component Engineering (GCE) and the different R&D sites.
• Define commodity strategies, preferred/strategic suppliers, and supplier strategies
• Negotiation of Volume Purchase Agreements (VPAs), long-term Price Books and step pricing.
• Negotiation of best logistics (lead time, VMI or buffer stocks) and quality T&C's in line with the requirements of ADVA and our CM's.
• Build relationships with the key decision-makers of our suppliers
• Trend scouting of market, product, technology, and supplier trend.
• Install an early warning system about potential material shortages, increases in lead time and allocation situations
• Close cooperation with different R&D sites globally.
• Early inv...