Program Buyer

7 hours ago

Pretoria, South Africa Segula Technologies Full time

**Company Description**
At SEGULA Technologies you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects and help shaping the future within an engineering company which is at the heart of innovation. From 3D printing, augmented reality, connected vehicle to the factory of the future - new technologies are part of our 10,000 ingenious collaborators’ day-to-day life. Would you like to join in?

SEGULA Technologies is always looking for new, ingenious, and daring talents worldwide to support all the major industrial actors within the automotive, aeronautics, energy, railway, naval, oil & gas and pharmaceutical sectors.

The Program Buyer is responsible for managing interface between program and suppliers, anticipating the specific requirements for new programs (supplier technologies, geographical location and target costs), and ensuring the commodity panel strategy is appropriate to support the program. The role selects and pilots suppliers from the agreed supplier panel in order to achieve Program objectives. The Program Buyer belongs to the program core team. Medium complexity programs (# of parts, spend, geographic scope, etc).

The main missions of the role are:
- Ensure supplier selection from the agreed supplier panel: identify and consult suppliers, manages supplier RFQ based on panel given by the Commodity Buyers. Negotiate or participate with the Commodity Buyer in supplier negotiations and the final choice of supplier (leads sourcing committee process to select suppliers from list provided by commodity buyers)
- Follow direct performance during the program phase: manage suppliers, compare costs with objectives, ensure quality during the program phase, respect delivery deadlines and in particular ensure that the program phase reviews are supported within the framework of Program Management System (PMS)
- Ensure early involvement of the Series Buyers in the program before the series phase
- Manage specific mandated suppliers when requested and agreed with customers
- Negotiate Engineering Change Requests
- _ Nice to have: _
- _First experience in purchasing or in program management_
- _Experience including an international assignment would be an advantage_

Skills and competencies:
- Knowledge of dedicated product design, development and launch processes
- Knowledge of supplier cost structures
- Fluent English
- Good written and oral presentation skills
- Good planning and organization skills
- International mindset
- Ability to work in a matrix organization
- _ Nice to have:_
- _Knowledge of APQP and program management in automotive_
- _Another language depending on the region_
- _Strong analytical capabilities_
- _Results oriented_

**Qualifications**
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Business.
- Nice to have: Professional Purchasing Qualification_

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