Magna International

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What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary:

Magna is more than one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.

Job Responsibilities:

Position Overview

Commodity Manager Mechanical in Magna International Purchasing Asia Team takes the major responsibility for identification and execution of synergy cost reductions across Magna’s Groups, as well as the establishment, implementation, and constant improvement of commodity and supplier strategy of these mechanical categories.

Job Responsibility

Synergy identification, promotion, implementation and realization

• Dive deep into the demand of the types of mechanical commodities from different Groups of Magna, and identify opportunities for volume bundling, specification standardization, etc
• Effectively promote potential synergy projects, establish project teams across groups, and proactively organize cross-groups discussions
• Set up cost saving targets and timelines, define implementation measures
• Lead and conduct internal and external benchmarking, bundling bidding, negotiations, till finalization of contracts
• Drive the executions in Groups, and monitor the actualization of the negotiation results
• Report to regional and global team regularly the progress and results

Commodity strategy formation and execution

• Conduct internal demand analysis cross Groups
• Conduct external supply market study, and current supply base study cross Groups
• Define category positioning, and supplier strategy
• Deep dive into cost drivers and define cost saving measures in strategy paper and constantly the implementation of the measures
• Support global strategy development by providing Asia input
• Organize technical events (technology workshop, innovation days, etc) with suppliers and capture supplier enabled innovations
• Establish and maintain the supply market intelligence, like price indicator for the commodity managed and its raw materials, supply market S/D dynamics, etc.

Project and operational tasks

• Support oversea Divisions/Groups to source Asia/China suppliers.
• Help oversea Divions/Groups to launch RFQs, negotiate price, payment terms, contracts etc (when needed)

Others

• Perform other tasks/ projects as required in balance of workloads and development of multiple tasked team competence
• Reasonably judge, identify, and properly handle all the personal information involved in work, learn and master the relevant policies and procedures for Magna's data privacy and personal information management.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Education: Bachelor's degree or above

Work Experience

• Minimum 10 years purchasing experiences in multi-national automotive companies
• Minimum 7 years experience managing mechanical commodities from strategy to execution
• Hands on experiences in leading synergy cost reduction projects cross business units will be preferred

Skills and Competencies

• Self-motivated,
• Proactive and persuasive communication
• Strong willingness to learn new things, and able to learn fast
• Systematic thinking, ability to see overview as well as details
• Commodity strategy building and execution skills
• Good English skill in both speaking and writing
• Travel approximately 30%

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

Worker Type:

Regular / Permanent

Group:

Magna Corporate