Title:  Commodity Manager

Location: 

Modlniczka, PL

Company:  SMA Magnetics Sp. z o.o.

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What can you expect when you join our team?

  • Employment contract in an international company with an established market position,
  • Attractive salary,
  • Extensive onboarding process - during which you will get to know our company from the inside,
  • Benefits package:
    1. Multisport sports card,
    2. medical care for the employee with the possibility to extend the package with family members,
    3. group insurance,
    4. financial bonuses for vacations,
    5. meals with employer subsidy,
    6. fruity tuesdays,
    7. internal and external training,
    8. programs for development of employee skills as required by the organization:
      1. co-financing of language courses,
      2. financing of higher education.
  • Unusual combination of family atmosphere with international standards and professionalism.

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Commodity Manager

Category:  Procurement and Purchasing

 

 

 

We are looking for Commodity Manager who will be responsible for management of complex, demanding purchasing categories with high value and complex manufacturing technology.

Place of work: Modlniczka (near Cracow), Poland

 

This is what your typical everyday life looks like:

  • Purchasing strategy - create, implement and present for managed purchasing categories and suppliers,
  • Market analysis -  for managed categories (raw materials, currencies, competitors, new suppliers and technologies, etc.),
  • Savings actions - initiation and introduction (technical and commercial),
  • Project groups - involvement and support in the early stages of product/part/service development,
  • Supplier evaluation - existing supplier base using available tools (e.g. Scorecard),
  • Risk management - within the managed purchasing category (financial, quality, logistics risks, etc.) and implementation of countermeasures,
  • Price negotiations - technical, logistical and commercial with suppliers (including difficult and monopolistic ones) and the conclusion of complex contracts,
  • Commodity group - conducting and leading,
  • Purchasing projects - „make or buy”, change of supplier, change of technology, other purchasing projects,
  • Difficult suppliers - cooperate with representatives regardless of their level in the organization, especially senior management.

 

Skills you need for the role:

  • Experience - in complex products, production technologies and negotiation techniques,
  • Knowledge - of the cost structure and the process of creation and its optimization for the managed product categories,
  • Communication - excellent communication skills to interact with customers in a positive and professional way,
  • Education - higher technical or economic degree,
  • Language skills - very good knowledge of English (min. B2), German would be asset.