Key Responsibilities
- Procurement & Commodity Management
- Manage procurement activities for assigned mechanical commodities.
- Develop sourcing strategies aligned with cost, quality, capacity and supply-continuity requirements.
- Lead RFQs, supplier evaluation, commercial negotiations and supplier selection.
- Manage supplier commercial performance, pricing, lead time and contractual requirements.
- Develop alternate and local sources for critical, constrained and single-source materials.
- Work with Engineering and Quality on value engineering and cost-reduction opportunities.
- Mechanical Part & Supplier Development
- Lead sourcing and development of new mechanical parts from RFQ through production release.
- Work with Engineering, Quality and suppliers on technical clarification, samples, tooling, FAI/PPAP and qualification.
- Evaluate supplier manufacturing capability, process suitability and production readiness.
- Ensure new parts meet cost, quality, capacity, lead-time and delivery requirements.
- Drive alternate-source development for critical and capacity-constrained components.
- Constraint Management
- Own plant-level material constraint identification and shortage resolution.
- Act as the first-line resolver of supply disruptions.
- Identify supply risks before they become visible as production scheduling problems.
- Coordinate with Production Planning and maintain an aligned constraint and delivery horizon.
- Analyse demand, inventory, open POs and supplier commitments to anticipate shortages.
- Develop recovery plans with clear ownership and target dates.
- Support inventory optimisation by highlighting excess, shortfall and coverage risks.
- Escalate structural supplier constraints through the appropriate Procurement channels.
- Supplier Capacity Management
- Assess supplier capacity against forecasts, production requirements and future ramp-up.
- Understand and evaluate supplier machines, tooling, cycle times, shifts, manpower and raw-material availability.
- Identify supplier bottlenecks and potential capacity shortages.
- Challenge suppliers on available capacity and validate capacity commitments.
- Establish and monitor capacity recovery or expansion plans.
- Coordinate alternate sourcing where capacity risk cannot be adequately mitigated.
- Delivery Performance & Expediting
- Manage plant-level supplier OTD/OTIF and delivery performance.
- Expedite critical materials and resolve overdue or potentially late deliveries.
- Prioritise expediting based on production requirements and line-down risk.
- Conduct supplier delivery and shortage-recovery reviews.
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