Flexis - Purchasing Project Manager Platform - CDI H/F
GUYANCOURT, FR, 78280
Flexis is the new company in the green logistics sector, with the mission to create more sustainable societies and change the way we move goods through cities.
The role
The role you could fill:
Lead and coordinate purchasing activities in projects.
- Plan, drive and follow up the Purchasing part of the development and secure the Purchasing deliverables on time with agreed quality, cost, features and technology, sustainability and risk.
- Have the responsibility to judge progress and maturity of deliverables.
- Be the interface to the Purchasing line organization and work closely together to secure purchasing strategies and objectives when building the technology and development roadmaps.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Main activites:
- Represent “Flexis” Purchasing and actively contribute to the Project Management Team
- Manage sourcing requirements and contribute to sourcing framing and commodity strategy with Advanced project team and Commodity Supplier Account Manager (SAM) / Upstream Strategic Function Team (USFT) leader
- Frame volumes and budgets with stakeholders (Engineering, Product Planning, Costing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, …)
- Communicate to Alliance Purchasing Organization (APO) the list of references to source, budget and milestones
- Obtain validation of sourcing plans
- Monitor Alliance Purchasing Organization (APO) Commodities execute sourcing activities on time (Sourcing Plan, Pre-Review Meeting, Sourcing Committees, …).
- Monitor Alliance Purchasing Organization (APO) to achieve expected Quality / Cost / delivery Performance (QCDP) all along the project - from sourcing framing till start of production, including aftermarket requirements
- Coordinate development (Part Price / Vendor Tooling / Supplier Entry Ticket) performance through development phase to meet milestones and reach best price at the Start of Production
- Monitor, follow-up and request action pan to achieve the target cost compliance.
Sourcing activity
- Confirm entry data for sourcing plan with other departments: volume, budget, logistics guidelines, Bill of Material, …
- Build Sourcing Plan in link with Upstream Strategic Function Team USFT leaders and Supplier Account Managers (SAMs)
- Drive Pre-Review Meetings.
- Plan and organize Sourcing Committee consistently with Alliance Purchasing Organization (APO) Delegation of Authorities (DOA)
- Development activity
- Manage Part price at Start of Production during development activities and support buyers in Design Change Request negotiation with suppliers
- Ensure Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) budget availability/visibility follow-up and validate orders (Vendor Tooling (V/T); Supplier Entry Ticket (SET) when paid cash)
- Follow rolling cost and Quality / Cost / Delivery Performance (QCDP)
- Manage Quality commitments for Purchasing and project milestones.
Development activity
- Manage Part price at Start of Production during development activities and support buyers in Design Change Request negotiation with suppliers
- Ensure Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) budget availability/visibility follow-up and validate orders (Vendor Tooling (V/T); Supplier Entry Ticket (SET) when paid cash)
- Follow rolling cost and Quality / Cost / Delivery Performance (QCDP)
- Manage Quality commitments for Purchasing and project milestones.
Main interfaces
Engineering, Quality, Program, Costing, Industrial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance and any other internal customer for Non-Automotive
Who you are
What you bring:
- Skills:
- Strong ability to work cross functionally in project mode
- Strong ability to build, coordinate and drive teams
- Good communication skills
- Act as a real team player, promoting collaboration and support
- Business acumen
- Negotiations skills including ability to manage supplier relationships in complex environments
- Proactive
- Result driven
- Stress resistant
- Fluent in English
- Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or related field
- Understanding of Purchasing challenges through experience from working in purchasing and/or development projects within automotive
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in purchasing in operational positions and/or purchasing project management.
Travel Frequency:
- Regularly
You’re a driven and results-oriented individual with a passion for the customer satisfaction and service quality?
You’d like the entrepreneurial challenge of setting up a new customer experience from a blank canvas?
We want to hear from you!
We want to become the primary provider of electrified urban logistics services through connected solutions and vehicles for our B2B partners and customers.
To make this project come true, the Joint Venture Flexis has received initial funding and support from 3 major players of the commercial vehicle sector.
We are a team of diverse peers looking to create a future company which will grow to 100+ collaborators over the next six months. We aim to make this project raising significant investments and reach rapidly a significant size with sales in excess of 2Bn. We are thinking big and fast. We will operate at the junction between electric vehicles and the digital world.
Being part of the team will offer you a strong opportunity to work on a Joint Venture creation and bring your passion, experience, startup mindset to move forward with a more sustainable environment.