Senior Buyer

Description

Job Summary: Automotive parts procurement professional responsible for quotations, supplier negotiation, inventory management, and cost optimization. Key Highlights: 1. Strategic procurement and supplier management for automotive parts 2. Focus on cost reduction, inventory efficiency, and delivery timelines 3. Supplier development and continuous process improvement Main Responsibilities: Execute parts procurement processes (original and parallel parts), including quotations, purchase order issuance, and negotiation with suppliers, OEMs, and distributors. Monitor and ensure adequate inventory supply, avoiding overstock and stockouts, while tracking delivery timelines and addressing emergency demands. Analyze inventory turnover, coverage, and obsolescence indicators to support strategic replenishment decisions and cost control. Develop new suppliers and equivalent part alternatives offering better cost\-benefit ratios, maintaining active relationships with representatives and distributors. Manage invoices and discrepancies, supporting finance and accounting departments with cost and timeline information. Align consumption forecasts and demand requirements with warehouse, workshop, and after\-sales departments, ensuring compliance with dealership and OEM procurement policies. Behavioral Profile: Proactive attitude and technical autonomy, adding maturity to the department and elevating quality standards and negotiation capability beyond the previous junior role. Analytical, critical, and results-oriented profile, focused on cost reduction, inventory efficiency, delivery timelines, and performance indicators. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, collaborating with internal departments (after\-sales, workshop, warehouse, finance) and external suppliers. Curious and innovative mindset, seeking continuous alternatives and improvements for processes, products, and supplier management. Emotional balance and adaptability, operating with control, clarity, and critical thinking in urgent, changing, and negotiation-intensive scenarios.