Strategic Purchaser
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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

The Strategic Purchaser will be responsible for strategic sourcing from your suppliers and responsibility area. You will manage, expand and develop global supplier base to meet the long term business requirements.
You will be accountable of leading the timely introduction to market of new sources or new products in close collaboration with internal stakeholders.

As the Strategic Purchaser, your work will focus on these responsibilities:

• Create and implement supplier strategies and action plans to meet Business Line requirements
• Co-operate with internal stakeholders product team, project management, proposal management and lifecycle management.
• Proactively lead the new supplier or new product introduction, including launch project management activities to support start of production, by collaborating cross-functionally with supplier, product development, procurement, logistics, and supplier quality
• Secure supplier capacity and availability for energy storage demand, taking into consideration cost and technology requirements.
• Ensure that Quality, Cost, Lead Time, Delivery Reliability and Agreement Coverage targets are met for Wärtsilä Energy Storage global supplier base.
• Monitor supplier performance with Supplier development function.
• Actively seek supply chain cost reduction opportunities as well as promote supplier or product value analysis/value engineering work
• Ensure compliance to Supply Management processes, procedures, strategies and agreements.
• Develop and implement cost-engineering capability to ensure profound understanding of cost drivers and levers to structurally reduce cost
• Contribute to long term supplier strategy creation. Search, evaluate and select new suppliers, identify best sources for new technologies
• Develop supplier base and supplier relationship management (especially related to the global battery recycling)

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:

• Experience in Battery industry
• Academic degree (B.Sc., M.Sc. or equivalent) in Electrical or Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain or Economics
• Minimum 7 years of experience of strategic sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing or procurement with proven track record of results
• Experience of storage business or renewable energy business, or large scale industry project business preferred
• Knowledge of legal, financial and technology components of Strategic Sourcing.
• Excellent understanding of direct material cost drivers and proven track record of cost reduction strategies implementation
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentations skills
• Solution oriented, pro-active, problem solving and result driven attitude to work
• Self-guided and proactive team player, able to operate under pressure
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Ability to work in fast pace, dynamic and changing environment.
• Fluent in written and spoken English language.
  (In this role, some travel is required to meet with our customers around the world. Thus, we hope you to be ready to travel approximately 20%, even though most of the meetings are held virtually.)