Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

• Interface between Automotive Purchasing and BA AM Purchasing.

• Support to align, define and implement the global Purchasing strategy with the BU specific material strategy including knowledge transfer.

• Support for Purchasing Redesign to cost measures as well as other cost reduction programs.

• Responsible to drive alignment between Automotive Purchasing and BA Management on material budget including opportunities and risks

• Responsible for Big data analytics, Purchasing KPI, Close the Gap and Material Strategy on a BU level.

• Support to ensure data quality by defining and implementing a structured analysis of AM material data

• Support transparent data analytics to ensure efficient evaluation of target deviations and definition of countermeasures

• Support and update a monthly forecast report for annual price reductions vs. budget, including risks and opportunities'

• Support for all financial and nonfinancial PUR KPIs for AM

• Implement and track relevant KPI's on a global scale

• Identifying external and internal data sources for data analysis

• Support for measure creation and realization of savings

• Ensure data quality for the active existing parts in the system

• Support to check continuously price differences including definition and implementation of countermeasures including leassons learnt for the organization

• Provide the big picture for purchasing topics by creating summaries and complex visualizations of selected topics e.g. Budget, MLCC, Shares, Legacy, etc…

• Support key strategic purchasing acitvities, like Risk Mitigation, multiple source and share implementation, SSL coverage

• and Legacy Management

• Drive exchange with category specialists and technology experts of the BUs / BAs in order to identify our technology roadmaps

• Support dedicated strategic projects e.g. "Project Risk Mitigation" in direct alignment with BU Management

• Support to setup and define structured reportings, methods and guidelines.

• Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc

• Human relations skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking)

• Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures

• Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques

• Project management skills, tools and techniques

• Procurement Process and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge

• Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms (IATF 19649/ VDA 6.1)

• Material Budget systems / process including compliance regulations

• Risk Management

• Technical understanding of specific components

• Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.

At Continental we are committed to building an inclusive and discrimination-free ecosystem in Mexico, these principles are rooted in our corporate philosophy and culture. Therefore, it is totally forbidden to request a pregnancy or HIV test as part of our selection processes.

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