About this role
Productivity Buyer
Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.
- Defines and implements technical/re-sourcing/logistics/VPS materials productivities and reservoir in line with budget requirements, in collaboration with the segment organization
- Supports the commodity organization (Segment Leaders) to reach the site negotiation objectives
- Drives in front of the MSC material productivity actions and brings suppliers in, in line with budget timing
- Monitors Supplier Relationship wherever assigned the Role of Key Account Purchasing (KAP) for a given supplier, when not covered by Group Commodity organisation
- Implements PG/PL Worldwide materials standards in the site (s)
- Build up the site (s) budget together with the site Purchasing manager and in liaison with the Segment Leaders
- Implement mitigation action plan at site level
- Ensure coverage of logistics protocols for all bought out parts
- Strictly apply the V5000 Supplier Integration axis Standards (internal referential, certifications, procedures, purchasing tools, information systems)
- Minimum experience 3 years in purchasing automotive
- Must be strong negotiator with significant achievement done in the past to be demonstrated, justified
- Ability to identify cost down opportunities
- Asian market knowledges (aware of operator cost, machine hourly rate per country) to bring the most competitive cost to Valeo
- Chinese speaker will be an advantage
- Familiar with AI
- Must have driving license and car, candidate shall confirm day roundtrip will be done with his car, because sometime we have extra job to be finished but if people come with van, it is a problem who must be resolved progressively
- Able to understand technical drawings
- Process automation background will be a plus
KPIs :
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Shared
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Purchasing index
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Specific
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Purchasing Index for commodity under his scope for technical/re-sourcing/logistics/VPS levers in his site (s)
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Supplier rationalization indicator
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Productivity Reservoir
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Quality incidents Job:
Productivity Buyer
Organization:
Site Purchasing
Schedule:
Full time Employee Status:
Regular Job Type:
Permanent contract Job Posting Date:
2026-10-23 Join Us ! Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development
More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com