About this role
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Requirements
- Initiate the strategies for Purchasing activities at VinFast together with HOD and BOD
- Directly involve in developing, building up strong partnership with strategic partners/key suppliers both domestically and internationally
- Develop and maintain a high-performance culture in the assigned team
- Take the lead in addressing any emergency resourcing, production expediting, or additional actions needed to reduce or eliminate the risk of plant line stoppages situation
- Identify vendor opportunities/challenges and partner with program management, the engineering team or plant production control and logistics to achieve appropriate resolution
- Ensure performance improvement and recovery plans are developed, issued, tracked and reported on
- Understand commodity part manufacturing and component cost elements and be able to work with suppliers to further cost down efforts
- Negotiate contractual terms regarding cost, delivery, quality, transportation, and other standard or special contract terms
- Maintain purchase price and raw material price trends and analysis
- Balance current and future demand requirements with supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of requirements
- Comply with established corporate and purchasing policy and processes
- Maintains purchase order files (i.e. quotes, blanket orders, warrants, prints, design changes, etc.) to support of the company’s quality system requirements
- Performs other duties as necessary.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of purchasing experience, ideally in the Automotive or Manufacturing industries
- Must display ability to identify problems, recommend solutions, and negotiate and execute contingency plans
- Communicates directly with management and cross-functional leaders as required
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to influence and motivate others
- Inquisitive, detail-oriented with strong quantitative analytical skills and an innovative approach to problem solving
- Strong written communication and presentation skills required
- Excellent MS Office (Excel, MSQuery, Access, PowerPoint) capabilities required
- Experience in SAP/ERP required
- Good command of English (4 skills)
Benefits
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