International Graduate Program – Sourcing Buyer Common Components

Title
Sourcing Buyer

Position

This is a graduate program for Volvo Group. Please visit our website to learn more about this opportunity. http://www.volvogroup.com/en-en/careers/graduate-program.html

Group Trucks Purchasing is the largest purchasing enterprise in northern Europe, one of the largest in the world (yearly purchasing value of over 100 billion SEK). As a part of our purchasing team you will be exposed to a highly international global business environment with large and challenging business responsibilities.

Group Trucks Purchasing, approximately 1200 people located on all continents globally, provides competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products and services that add real business value for the truck brands of the Volvo Group.

Having selected the best suppliers, we build strong relationships with them in order to drive the growth, profitability and continuous improvements we both expect. We drive synergies and share best practices within the Volvo Group

Purchasing Sourcing Common Components
Now you have the opportunity to join Global Sourcing Common Components. The department consist of approx. 55 highly dedicated and skilled buyers spread out globally in India, China, Japan, Brasil, US, France and Sweden.

The Sourcing Buyer drives and executes all contractual- and sourcing activities up to supplier selection with the purpose of selecting the most competitive suppliers from a Quality Delivery Cost and Feature perspective in accordance with the Sourcing strategy and the Projects’ requirements.
As the sourcing buyer you will get a own portfolio of parts/segments were your mission will be to maximize the commercial performance on the portfolio on a yearly basis as well as for more long term business. You will belong in a fully global team and be working with parts connecting to all of our truck brands globally.

Responsibilities
•Be host buyer of your suppliers: key point of entry of the company
•Sourcing activities: Send Request for Quotes, analyze suppliers quotations, Negotiate project conditions (payment terms, Incoterms…)
•Follow market- and technology development in its area of expertise
•Agreement management : Negotiate and sign Framework agreement, Price agreement, Warranty charters
•Negotiate yearly productivities with suppliers of your segments
•Cross functional activities to define extra savings on your portfolio to contribute to department KPI
•Work on the sourcing strategies of your segment together with the cross functional team (Engineering, quality, logistics…)

Education
1st choice: MSc degree in Business and/or Engineering/Supply chain

Travel
Yes > 40 days per year

Location:
Gothenburg, Sweden

For further information, please contact:
Hiring Manager: Erik Ifwarsson, Sourcing Director, Phone: +46739025785
HR Business partner: Milka Kostovska, Phone: +46765534807


Personal Profile
We would like to welcome you to our team where initiatives, new ideas and creativity are a must.
We believe you are a supportive team player and are comfortable working with different cultures, people and also cross functionally including functions such as product development, logistics, manufacturing, legal advisors, quality etc.
The ability to take ownership of various tasks is necessary and problem solving skills in combination with analytical mind set is a must. We also think that you are result oriented and like doing business.
We can offer you a very dynamic, interesting and challenging job where you will be able to personally grow and develop your skills.

Overall requirements:
•Master of Science or Business Administration
•Valid work-permit for applied country if not citizen
•Excellent spoken and written English (Additional languages are given merit)
•Maximum of two years previous work-experience prior to or after graduation
•International experience is meriting
Education
1st choice: MSc degree in Business and/or Engineering/Supply chain



Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) is the global organization with more than 1,300 purchasing professionals distributed worldwide that bring all their expertise in securing purchasing excellence. We provide competitive advantages to the Volvo Group by selecting high performing suppliers to deliver the best possible products and services that add real business value. Group Trucks Purchasing has 78 billion SEK in Automotive Purchasing annual spend, 2,550 suppliers in serial production, 1,9 billion parts delivered to Group Truck plants annually. The Volvo Group applies the principles in its Code of Conduct in the purchasing process.