At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
Why you should join:
TE Connectivity's Purchasing Teams are responsible for obtaining materials, components, equipment and services, gather quotations, examine bids, and award contracts. They perform cost analysis and volume planning for commodities, evaluate vendor reliability and develop new supply sources where required. They coordinate purchasing activities with the manufacturing and engineering departments to maintain inventory at planned levels and monitor cost, schedule, and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value. They also look for and recommend cost saving proposals including make vs. buy analysis, alternative sourcing, and vendor evaluation criteria as well as develop specifications for new contract orders.
Your main tasks:
- Identification and development of supppliers for new technologies and gap closure in case of capacity issues
- Run competitive bidding process
- Conduct Supplier Negotiations after the RFQ process
- Create sourcing decision support document
- Problem-solving with suppliers and internal functions
- Represent Procurement in Core Team meetings
- Understand the customer requirements and deploy the actions for the requirements within the organization and with the suppliers
- Support other co-departments to achieve TE targets of TTM, savings, quality, delivery and localization
- Contribute to implement TE Procurement strategy
- Responsible for carrying out duties in accordance with the current quality and environmental policies of the company as well as the duties defined in employee’s scope of responsibilities
Your ideal background:
- Mechanical engineer (preferably but not a must)
- 5 years experience in procurement
- 3+ years experience in automotive
- Know- how ideally in assembly processes
- Broad technical understanding of production processes
- Significant know how in quality management Systems
- This position requires a highly motivated personality with excellent analysis and problem solving skills, good interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to multi-task
- Knowledge of different production methods
- High level of negotiation skills
- Ability to work in matrix environment with multi-cultural team
- Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continuous improvement attitude
- Advanced knowledge in the use of Microsoft Office, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint
- Fluent English and/or German at negotiation leve
- Drivers license class B
- Willingness to trave
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ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 9,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 130 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!
• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.
