Responsible for assigned commodity management, establishing the commodity strategy and acting it, such as battery, battery management system, and other related commodities.
Build up commercial and technical knowledge of responsible battery markets and raw material pricing. Manage vendor relationships and build sustainable & effective partnerships. Actively participate in the development of new products and represent the purchasing department to be responsible for the sourcing-related work and tasks. Focus on supplier performance control and continued improvement, such as continuous cost reduction, on time delivery, shortened lead time, quality excellence etc. Ensure purchasing cost of assigned commodity complied with project master specification, sourcing divisional goals and other company targets. Evaluate, preserve, develop existing suppliers to avoid any risks from supply chain, by introducing competitive new suppliers to improve current supply base competence. Collaborate closely with engineering and quality team to maintain safe and cost competitive, efficient supply chain through dual sourcing, localization activities. Ability to travel to Europe and abroad. Have to report periodically to the divisional VP sourcing on status of the projects and critical sourcing topics, and travel in China with VP Sourcing when visiting. Follow Atlas Copco Way in daily work to implement sourcing mission, vision, and strategy.