PURCHASING SUPERVISOR

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PURCHASING SUPERVISOR

6/9/26

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Supervises a team of buyers and the process for the acquisition of products for one or more product groups.   Job Requirements

ACTIVITIES: •    Ability to understand root cause of quality issue and facilitate communication with Regional Management, supplier, and BU’s for resolutions.   •    Understanding of Supplier Approval Process and relationships of related functions to ensure compliance.   •    Understanding of strategies, risk and opportunities within assigned commodities as developed by the Regional Commodity Managers.  •    Facilitate development of Procurement strategy and identify risk and opportunities within scope; Manage implementation of strategies within scope.  •    Support Multiple BU’s and Natural Owners.  •    Ability to perform cost/price analysis with total cost of ownership as objective.  •    Ability to identify, negotiate and implement cost avoidance/reduction opportunities through total cost analysis as applicable.  •    Responsible for meeting targets for assigned areas. Lead and facilitate internal teams and supplier meetings.  •    Lead projects within scope, may be cross-functional, within assigned areas of responsibility.  •    Knowledge and understanding of timely execution of escalations.    •    Understanding of JIT, consignment and VMI. Ability to resolve invoice blocks on orders in their responsibility.  •    Ability to ensure requirements are met by supplier through order placement, submission, and walk-through.    •    Ability to lead direct reports including goal setting, people development, performance management and the use of the career management tool. •    Prior leadership and/or facilitation of internal teams and supplier meetings a plus  •    Experience in Project management driving results on time is a plus  •    Coaching and Mentoring skills to continue developing the internal team. What your background should look like

REQUIREMENTS: •     Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineer or commercial degree required; Master's Degree is a plus.  •    Bilingual, or at least 85% of English, both verbal and written •    5 - 7 years of purchasing, supply chain, engineering, or technical management experience.  •    Project management knowledge and background in handling multiple projects at same time.  •