上海招聘

Position: Commodity Management- Electrics

Location: Beijing

Your Responsibilities:

1. Cost Management
? Determine an annual purchase-budget for commodity Electrics; scheduling expenditures; track and report cost-development and expenditure-status; analyze variances; initiate optimization actions.
? Develop product-specific sourcing strategies, share-allocation; consider JV-needs and brand-&region requirements. Drive continuous cost-reduction measures to maximize product-margin of individual Electrics product.
? Initiate cost planning and evaluation process: Supply-market testing; Initial price determined by competitive bid, and on-going negotiations thereafter.
? Detailed cost structure analysis in order to identify the primary cost drivers. Price change control: Ceilings established on future price changes; Cost-control, determine the total cost of ownership; evaluate the production efficiencies / machine utilization.
? Set standard costs at item, product and supplier level at each unit; determine target-cost for individual product inquiry.
? Define longer-term agreements with suppliers linked to projects and price: Productivity improvement goals; Percentage of economics and Cost saving sharing.
? Conduct volume bundling with JV, VW Group brands and region to achieve scale effect linked to price.
? Explore competitive potential suppliers; effectively beat out the monopoly competition.
2. Product-group management of commodity Electrics:
? Comprehensive knowledge of Volkswagen original accessory Electrics-products; initiate and conduct cross-model Electrics product-analysis to develop and realize purchasing synergy of cross-model projects.
? Frontier-depth supply market interaction; acquire, evaluate and judge information of state of the technique, production technologies and benchmark analysis of competitive products.
? Represent purchasing division in original accessory Electrics-products related product forums, workshops with Technic, Quality Assurance and Product management for brands and region.
? Integrate the international supply-market from a group perspective.
? Identify leading edge technique, production technologies and potential application on Volkswagen original accessory Electrics-products; develop / propose product improvement measures.
3. Project management for localization (LC) projects
? Lead project scoping for the localization process: Generate localization plan; allocate localization-goals to individual work-packages of cooperating function-departments; establish a baseline for measuring performance.
? Effectively communicate project information to LC-project-team members. Coordinate technic, production, and quality function departments to create appropriate production and release timelines; Organize project team commitment-meeting.
? Critical chain project management: convey project changes and update to appropriate LC-project-team members. Exploit the constraint, provide solutions and tasks on the critical chain; give priority over all other activities.
? Manage LC-project-team in the multi-project environments; enforce policies and procedures; control and monitoring LC-Plan execution; review deliverables of technic, production, and quality; present the achievements to project stakeholders.

4. Sourcing of the original accessory Electrics-products.
? Lead intercultural cross-entity sourcing team members from various departments of brands and region; motivate them for project-dedication.
? Responsible for sourcing-strategy-definition with Group- and JV-Commodity purchasing; based on competition situation; product definition and profit-calculation, incl. integration of supply-market situation.
? Judge and determine potential suppliers for project bidding process.
? Supervise cross-departments Sourcing-Kick-Off meetings; align on project specific concept and integrate cross-JV and Group technic, production, and quality function departments to create appropriate priorities and auditing timelines.
? Evaluate cost structure and set cost-target for individual product, incl. tooling investment and payment-regulation.
? Direct common sourcing inquiry-process; Manage decision-making procedures in case of functional conflicting goals between competing objectives based on proposals of sourcing teams, if necessary escalation in purchasing sourcing committees.
? Self-dependent development of negotiation strategy and tactics; drive negotiation; adjust negotiation strategy and tactics based on outcome; define purchasing cost target and optimize the cost, investment and time line.
? Present sourcing strategy, time schedule and result of the sourcing activities; present the methodology and result of the overall common sourcing team to Top Management.
? Recommend supplier-nomination with the most competitive cost and time schedule. Get approval of Top Management on CSC-decision Meetings.
? Establish the serial supply-chain management team with direct link to Technic, Quality and Logistic after legally and compliance-conform contract closing to suppliers and service-providers.
? Monitor the serial production of the supplier. Ensure timely and accurate inbound supply of the original accessory Electrics-products to JV-Production plants or distribution and outbound export to VW Group-wide brands and region.

5. Supplier Management: Supplier performance management and risk management
? Overall understand the national and international supply-market; incl. competitive environment; ranking of each Top player. Integrate Global players and local suppliers into a reasonable competition environment.
? With VCRA commodity purchasing in the lead, manage the supply-chain; cross-entity and cross-functional partners, such as Quality, Technic and Logistics are an integral part of the entire supplier/ and service-providers monitoring process.
? Manage actual supplier-performance, identify gaps and agreement of actions to achieve reduced costs, reduced risks, and increased value.
? Lead systematic Supplier Risk Management for identification and evaluation of potential risks and, based on it, implement appropriate measures for control over these risks.
? Set standardized criteria as the basis for this evaluation and enables a comparison of the results. The evaluation includes: Business Collaboration, Operational Competence, Financial credibility, Sustainability and Business Continuity.
? Alleviate risks, decide on counter measures to reduce risks; safeguard the competitive cost-advantage through a continuous improvement of supplier base.

6. Carry out specific duties related to the post holders’ roll according to his/her skills and experience

Our Requirements:

Necessary education:
? University degree

Personal skills:
? Open, enthusiastic, encouraging, creative and challenging – must be able to get out of the comfort zone
? Social Competencies: Communication and Negotiation, Teamwork, Customer Orientation, Planning and Organizing, Flexibility
? Personal Competencies: Performance Orientation, Taking Responsibility, Initiative & Motivation, Problem Solving, Innovation, Strong Focus on Process Orientation and Transparency
? Technical Competencies: Brand Product Knowledge, Sales Management Knowledge, After-sales Management Knowledge, Marketing Knowledge, Dealer Management Knowledge, Budget Controlling, Sales & Marketing System Knowledge
Working experience (in years):
? 5 years of working experience in automotive sector of related functions with personnel responsibility
Remarks (Language, IT-Knowledge, Certificates etc.):
? English and Mandarin Chinese are essential, German advantageous
? IT: Microsoft Office

What we offer:

? Strong brands, excellent products and image
? Performance oriented competitive compensation & benefits package
? Professional career development & qualification
? Good management, team work, open communication & feedback
? International working environment & global network
? Attractive work, health programs & work-life balance


Join us and become a part of the Volkswagen Family – We are looking forward to welcome you on board!

Please send your application in English to: Volkswagen.HR@volkswagen.com.cn with subject “channel name (where you find this job posting) – applicant name – current company – current position – applied position”.

Volkswagen Group China

Volkswagen Group is one of the earliest and most successful international partners of China’s automobile industry. The Group has grown together with China’s auto industry, overcoming many challenges and achieving significant growths, during the 30 years’ partnership with China.

As early as 1978, Volkswagen Group started contacts with China. The first Santana was produced in Shanghai in April 1983. In October 1984, Shanghai Volkswagen Corporation Ltd, the first joint venture of Volkswagen Group in China, laid foundation in Shanghai. In February 1991, FAW-Volkswagen Corporation Ltd was established in Changchun, creating Volkswagen Group’s second joint venture in China.

The business scope of Volkswagen Group in China includes the production, sales and services of complete vehicles and parts, such as engines and transmissions. All of the Group auto brands — including Volkswagen, Audi, SKODA, SEAT, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN — have a business presence in China through Volkswagen Group China and its subsidiaries.