Buyer

Overview

Buyer role at Michelin in Chennai responsible for building market expertise with business entities across the sourcing phase and end-to-end execution, and ensuring the purchasing process is executed through the supplier relationship lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Contribute to sourcing strategy definition and tactical management under guidance of the Category Manager: PSA (Purchasing Strategy Assessment), RMat wrap up.
• Develop market expertise through portfolio segmentation and analysis of opportunities and threats in collaboration with business entities.
• Ensure markets business model analysis and inflation monitoring.
• Define and challenge short and mid-long term needs of business entities.
• Evaluate and anticipate risks, notably business continuity, and implement mitigation action plans on the portfolio scope.
• Realize and regularly update portfolio analysis (spend, suppliers, internal partner risk, SWOT, action plan).
• Define supplier panel and supplier segmentation with the Category Manager and business entities.
• Deploy the defined sourcing strategy at the right level (corporate, regions or country).
• Prospectively evaluate new suppliers in accordance with the Purchasing category strategy.
• Benchmark with other companies on the same scope of activities and markets.
• Define negotiation strategy and objectives and lead the negotiation process.
• Make tenders and negotiate RFI, RFQ and RFP, ensuring relevance and accuracy of documents and challenging internal partners if needed (except RMAT).
• Lead supplier evaluation and selection in collaboration with business entities.
• Responsible for the homologation process of new sourcing and suppliers for RMAT.
• Lead negotiation and contracting with internal and external stakeholders, and have contracts and amendments signed at the right level (Group or local).
• Ensure contract content aligns with negotiation results, specifies the right performance indicators, and can be implemented and monitored.
• Contribute to deployment of contracts in Michelin entities with the Contract Manager Business lead.
• Lead Supplier Relationship Management as a KSM (Key Supplier Manager).
• Animate introduction of innovative solutions with suppliers and business entities (Innovation with Supplier).
• Evaluate and steer supplier performance (business review, supply review, SRM review) and implement progress plans.
• Guarantee purchasing excellence of supplier interactions, including invoice digitalization and data quality.
• Support claims such as contractual disputes, non-conformities and supply problems with various stakeholders.
• Address CSR stakes and ambitions on the portfolio.
• Be accountable for the quality of purchasing and procurement data.

Details

• Location: Chennai.