Purchasing Project Manager

• Automotive sector|Purchasing Project Manager

Automotive Company

Sourcing process:

• In the respect of the purchasing policy and strategy, he/she establishes the supplier short list for the project with the commodity buyers.


• Gathers all key information for petition of the offers RFQ and identifies the market constraints, the targets planned for each activity.


• Negotiates according to the quality, cost and deadline project's targets.


• Proposes and compares alternative solutions.


• Addresses the sourcing recommendation to the Sourcing Board. He/she writes the contracts and implements them.

Ordering and payment :

• He manages purchase request and purchase order related to his project.


• He follows payment schedule to suppliers.

Coordination & tracking:

• He identifies the project's risks and opportunities, to plan each activity, to coordinate them internally & externally and to track them up to final realization.


• In case of critical topic related to supplier and QCT, he leads associate task force, and escalates to commodity team and to the superior manager.

Supplier quality & non-event launch:

• He participates to Supplier APQP project plan definition and follow-up (lead by the Purchasing Supply Engineer).


• He supports Supplier engineer on major road block related to Supplier APQP.


• He attends PO launch meetings and track purchasing deep red points.


• He implements Tier 2 readiness process with objective of launching a project without impact from suppliers side.


• He organises project transfer to the commodity buyer.

Project Management :

• He defines initial Statement of Work of purchasing perimeter including extended team, regarding project perimeter, development budget (hours, hourly rate, travel cost), split of activity between SPM and extended team and Optimap Work Packages


• He leads functionally the extended team activity for his /her project.


• He prepares project status (RPM document) for his manager who attends milestones reviews.


• He's in charge to follow critical topics identified during RPM or milestones review.


• He follows purchasing OPTIMAP procedures.


• He updates KEOPS.

Budget management:

• He validates at the beginning of the project provisional budget (hours and cost) is in accordance to initial project perimeter and project objectives.


• He proposes adjustments and modifications link to perimeter evolution during project life time


• He insures the follow up of hour's budget of project and alerts in case of gap

Continuous Improvements:

• He participates to continuous improvements for job, organisations and methodology.


• He participates to capitalisation and to productivity actions.


• At the end of the project, he participates to the closure of project and gives feedback regarding best practise and difficulties.

Stable position in a multinational environment within the automotive sector

• Bachelor of Engineering or Science or Business School with purchasing speciality


• Minimum of 7 years' experience including 5 years in purchasing


• Knowledge of project management in automotive sector or plastic business


• Purchasing knowledge


• Technical negotiations


• Companies & commercial laws


• Project management


• Finance & cash management


• Logistics (consignment, VMI incoterms, Customs Clearance basics)


• Crisis Management


• English fluent