Direct Purchasing Senior Buyer
General Motors
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
-(Jan. 2015 up to moment)
Job Title: Direct Purchasing Senior Buyer
Company: General Motors
Department: Global Purchasing and Supply Chain (GPSC)
Job Description:
- Preparing annual saving and cost avoidance plan for assigned commodity to achieve the department budget.
- Conduct the global and local sourcing process, preparing RFQ’s, studying suppliers’ offers and do all the required benchmarks to choose best supplier.
- Maintaining a strong local and global supplier base, and support local suppliers to get the latest know-how and technologies through technical agreements with the global suppliers.
- Developing new suppliers to enrich the supply base and diversify sources of supply.
- Frequent negotiations, visits and workshops with the suppliers for better understanding of the cost structure.
- Continuous analysis of the cost breakdown and benchmarking to identify waste elimination ideas and cost saving opportunities.
- Working aligned with cross function teams to achieve the short and long term targets
- Issuing scheduling agreements, Purchase orders and other purchasing documents through SAP
- Preparing the localization plan for local content in the current models or new launches to secure the minimum requirement of the local content set by the government.
- Introducing new technologies to the auto feeding industries in the country.
- Managing a major commodity of parts (Chassis, suspension, break system, exhaust, wheels and tires, power trains and wiring)
Other Assignments:
1. OPEX (operations excellence) project lead
2. Supplier's financial risk rating coordinator
Latest Accomplishments:
- Annual saving USD xxxK
- Annual cost avoidance USD xxxK
- Developed 3 new suppliers and added them to bidlist
- Achieved localization plan and other initiatives
- Responsible for foreign purchases and logistics activities of raw materials, machines and spare parts
- Organize & schedule daily work, evaluate and provide support & guidance to team members
- Represent the firm in the meetings with suppliers and strengthen business relationship with them
- Maintain and develop approved supplier list and source new qualified suppliers
- Prepare monthly and annual performance reports, presentations, price trends & forecasts
- Reduce cost by analyzing reasons and implementing purchasing procedures
- Receive quotations and negotiate prices to assure obtaining required materials at lowest possible cost with optimum quality at scheduled time
- Revise contracts, place and follow up the progress of purchase orders and submit compensation claims
- Coordinate closely with financial, planning, warehouses and production departments
- Receive shipping documents, revise and approve them and follow up with customs clearance brokers and shipping lines
- Communicate with Banks, Customs and Government entities to discuss and solve problems
- Handling the process of Export of some products of a company in the Group
Main Materials: Plastic & Foam raw materials, Glass fiber & Polyester Tissues, Machines, Spare parts, Electrical components, rubber and chemicals.
Foreign purchases:
- Receive reports for inventory and raw material stock and investigate shortage or abnormal loss
- Calculating required quantities of raw materials, get RFQs and prepare purchase orders with relevant suppliers
- Follow up with existing suppliers and seek for new qualified suppliers and freight forwarders
- Ensure in-time product availability, by following up with suppliers, freight forwarders and clearance brokers
- Preparing Letters of credit, letters of guarantee and T/T transfers and proceeding with the bank
- Receiving shipping documents and take necessary steps with banks and custom clearance agents
- Prepare frequent reports for planned & achieved duties
Main Materials: chemicals, fragrances, paper, dyes, inks, spare parts, tinplate and machines
Export:-
- Communicate with customers, receiving orders and coordinating with related internal department to assure order accomplishment with required specs in scheduled time
- Primary pricing and calculating cost according to basis of C&F, CIF, FOB or other Incoterms basis
- Revise L/Cs, prepare invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin and all necessary documents
- Preparing customers balance statements, Records, income statements and cash flow reports for Exports
- Contacting with shipping lines and getting most proper prices and services
Main Products: Aerosol products, Air fresheners, Insecticides and other Dangerous cargos
- Receive purchase requisition from ordering department and send RFQ’s to local supplier
- Negotiate prices with suppliers and prepare price comparisons and report to purchases manager
- Execute purchase orders with approved suppliers and follow up with them till delivery in scheduled time
- Follow up payment procedures to insure accuracy of supplier’s statement
- Taking necessary actions regarding rejected goods to be returned to the supplier
Main Materials: chemicals, fragrances, paper, dyes and packaging
- Advertising campaign; Posters, Offers and Promotions, in addition to marketing the products and getting purchases orders...
International Business
