职位描述

Position Overview
Commodity Manager, Packaging in Magna International Purchasing Asia Team takes the major responsibility for identification and execution of synergy cost reductions across Magna’s Groups, as well as the establishment, implementation, and constant improvement of commodity and supplier strategy of packaging materials.

Job Responsibility
Synergy identification, promotion, implementation and realization
-Dive deep into the demand of the types of packaging from different Groups of Magna, and identify opportunities for volume bundling, or specification standardization
-Effectively promote potential synergy projects, establish synergy project teams across groups, and proactively organize cross-groups discussions
-Analyze synergy opportunities, set up cost saving targets and timelines, define implementation measures.
-Lead and conduct internal and external benchmarking, bundling bidding, negotiations, till finalization of contracts
-Drive the executions in Groups, and monitor the actualization of the contracts/negotiation results
-Report to regional and global team regularly the progress and results

Commodity strategy formation and execution
-Conduct internal demand analysis cross Groups
-Conduct external supply market study, and current supply base study cross Groups
-Define category **itioning, and supplier strategy
-Deep dive into cost driver, define cost saving measures in strategy paper and constantly drive cost reductions
-Support global strategy development by providing Asia input
-Organize technical events (technology workshop, innovation days, etc) with suppliers and supplier enabled innovations
-Establish and maintain the supply market intelligence, like price indicator for packaging categories.

Project and operational tasks
-Support oversea plants to source Asia/China suppliers.
-Help oversea or domestic plants to launch RFQ, negotiate price, payment terms, contracts etc
-Other tasks assigned by the superior

Knowledge and Education
-Bachelor's degree or above

Work Experience
-Minimum 10 years purchasing experiences in multi-national automotive companies
-Minimum 7 years experience managing packaging category from strategy to execution
-Hands experiences in managing synergy cost reduction projects cross business units most preferred

Skills and Competencies
-Proactive and persuasive communication
-Strong willingness and ability to learn, quick learner
-Self-motivated
-Systematic & structured thinking, ability to see overview as well as details
-Commodity strategy building and execution skills
-Good English skill in both speaking and writing.
-Travel approximately 30%