Senior Buyer

This is an incredibly exciting time to join the Honeywell Transportation Systems team!

Transportation Systems is the true pioneer of automotive turbocharging dating back more than 60 years, and continues today as the world's leader in turbo technology solutions and an experienced supplier of electric boosting products and automotive software to support passenger cars, commercial vehicles and off-highway equipment.

With a worldwide footprint of engineering centers, testing labs and manufacturing facilities, Transportation Systems serves all major automotive companies to implement key differentiated technology offerings.

As a testimony to its success, in 2018 Honeywell will be spinning off the Transportation Systems business into a stand-alone, publicly traded company. Being a stand-alone company will provide Transportation Systems the independence, focus, direct financial resources, and flexibility required to adapt quickly to market and customer dynamics, and we want you to be part of its evolution. Both new and existing employees will have a more direct benefit from the company’s performance in a multitude of ways.

Main responsibilities
• Improves Region competitiveness through cost reductions in liaison with Commodity Organization:
• Supports Commodity in productivity objectives and capacity gap analysis.
• Suggests HLRR opportunities to commodity & participates to VE ideas generation for Regional Projects.
• Executes VE, HLRR, logistics productivity actions in line with AOP requirements and in collaboration with Commodity
organization.
• Manages post-SOP Engineering changes with suppliers in relation with.
• Executes suppliers selection process on HLRR projects.
• Provides input to commodity to support supplier prospection needs identification.
• Prepares and updates pricing information in SAP.
• Defines and executes first level of actions of gap closure plan (capacity & productivity).
• Supports Commodity organization to reach the Region negotiation objectives.>• Supports Commodity in supplier performance
review and action plan tracking.
• Collects capacity data from suppliers.
• Handles logistics / capacity / quality issues in the region as the first sourcing interface of plant supply chain & Quality
(according to escalation process). Validates and negotiates charge-back amounts below
• Implement Mitigation action plan in the Region.
• Pilot supplier relationship role as KSC (Key Supplier Contact), when assigned by Commodity (delegation).

You must have
• Bachelor Degree

We value
• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in the Automotive Industry (with ideally in 3 years in Purchasing) experience in complex supplier negotiations including preparing and administering Long Term Agreements
• Proven effectiveness in working in a global, multicultural environment
• Working experience with SAP (or other system) environment (SAP would be a big plus)
• Very well skilled with MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Projects, Word.
• Ability to travel (plane, car), even within short notice
• 3rd language (on top of native tongue and English) appreciated: French or Italian
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to communicate concisely and act in a multicultural and cross-functional environment at all levels inside and outside the company
• Tough, sound negotiator
• Action oriented, results driven with proven track record of achieving business goals
• Team builder, motivator and team player Strategic thinker; uses creative and innovative problem solving approach

We are offering:
• Competitive salary and an attractive benefits package
• Extensive training programs
• Career growth opportunities
• Experienced leaders to support your professional development
• Dynamic and international work environment