Project Buyer

As a Project Buyer you will set up the supply chain for New Product Introduction projects.

In this role, your focus is to set up the supply chain and secure supply chain requirements for New Product Introduction (NPI) projects during the various phases in the Product Creation Process (PCP). You liaise with many internal and external stakeholders like procurement, supplier quality, sales, project management to understand and challenge the required Quality, Logistics, Technology and Costs (QLTC) performance levels of the customers and internal organization.

From our assembly facility in Eindhoven you like to keep yourself busy with:

• Preparing the supplier selection to define and set up the supply chain for NPI projects, including all procurement deliverables.
• Ensuring procurement of all relevant parts (including operational set up and follow up in ERP system) with a QLTC optimized/negotiated performance level.
• Validating material costs for the project and capturing them accurately in the project budget.
• Keeping track of material cost variances and escalating them to the project leader through the appropriate process.
• Together with SQA engineers qualify required new suppliers (e.g. supplier audits).
• Preparing and negotiating new and existing long-term purchasing contracts with (international) suppliers.
• Participating actively in improvement of procurement related processes/methods, such as NPI procedures, templates and contractual agreements.

First of all, you have excellent communication skills and you have a strong personality. You are proactive as a partner for the other project members for setting up the chain of delivery.

• Bachelor's degree, technical and/or business, preferably in the area of mechanics or mechatronics’ or a secondary vocational degree (MBO+) combined with relevant equivalent experience
• NEVI 1 and NEVI 2 education or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years’ relevant work experience in comparable function in supply chain management/procurement in the high-tech low volume industry,
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and respective cost drivers and able to understand technical drawings (tolerances/manufacturability).
• Extensive knowledge of ERP systems.
• Strong personality, result driven and easily connecting with suppliers to get the right things done,
• Languages:
  
  Dutch (mandatory), English, German preferred.

• Flexible working hours of 32- 40 hours per week in an inspiring environment.
• You will work with passionate colleagues in an innovative environment on a variety of technologies and projects.
• By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers and get to work on challenging high-tech projects.
• You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
• Personal coaching and a training budget of €3000 per year, so that you can continue to develop yourself.
• We also find it important to have fun together. We organize a lot for our employees, from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties, to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
• You will be working at a prime location in the heart of the Brainport region. You will be working on the Sioux Campus and can use our Sioux Labs living room every day for lunch, sports, making music, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues in one of our Tech Labs.

We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the challenging high-tech projects. About how you can develop yourself like nowhere else. But we prefer to leave this to our own colleagues.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require Sioux to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.