NPI Innovation Sourcing Partner
Your tasks
About the Role This newly designed role aims at connecting between our business groups (BGs) and procurement to understand key technical requirements as well as streamline sourcing activities and enable a speedy time to market.
You will be the key go-to person for our R&D colleagues across any of our 4 BGs globally and will work closely with our global category teams, incumbent and potentially new suppliers – depending on the material request by our R&D colleagues. You will engage in technical discussions with our R&D teams and ensure a speedy trial phase, up until the material is released for mass production. From there it is handed over to our global sourcing teams
- Partner cross-functionally with our BG R&D teams, engineering, operations, controlling and quality teams to enable new product development
- Own end-to-end sourcing responsibility for all BG required materials and outsourced technical services during the product development stage, incl. achieving agreed objectives and key results (OKRs)
- Scout the supplier market for innovative supply partners
- Lead technical partner dialogues to ensure streamlined sourcing for market standards or trends
- Align Sourcing Strategies of Global Procurement Key Category Teams with BG R&D Teams
- build and maintain strategic supplier relationships and manage their performance
- Drive value creation initiatives and product innovation, considering long-term commercial leverage
- Lead commercial negotiations and close (long-term) supply contracts, apply pricing models and securing supply
- Define, execute and adapt global NPI strategies to our corporate and the landing category strategy, and ensure technology roadmap alignment
- Ensure stable and timely supply of sample batches ensuring supplier readiness and timely industrialization (Time to Market)
- attend industry conferences, visit and audit (new) supply partners, and prepare market intelligence and strategic insights into supply trends, cost, and technology developments for internal stakeholders
- Support procurement transformation and sustainability requirements and drive improvement initiatives
Requirements
What You Will Need
- University degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering or another technical domain
- Minimum 7 years of sourcing experience in an international manufacturing industry
- Proven negotiation and analytical skills, and a good understanding of current ESG requirements
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills on an international level
- Excellent English speaking and communication skills amongst various groups of stakeholders, also across borders (Tier 1+2 sites), nice to have: Mandarin, Japanese, or German language skills
- Capability to think out of the box while continuously challenging the status quo
- Work independently with a solution-oriented and proactive mindset
- Proactively identify and monitor emerging technical trends and developments
- Willingness to travel internationally