About the role
Product category: Lighting Trade Products
LED Bulb, LED Batten, Downlight, Panels, COB, Strip, Rope, Drivers, Street/Flood Light, and Lighting Accessories
Responsibility:
- Owning Vendor Relationship and delivers strategic impact through Vendor Strategy Development.
- Understanding the full business relationship of the Vendor, its position in the market relative to others, and its strategy, investment themes and capabilities.
- Managing Vendor performance, cross-functional stakeholder feedback /calibration.
- Applying oversight and monitoring of agreed projects being executed in the business by securing close alignment between supplier, R&D, Quality and business.
- Purchasing Strategy and Process.
- Provides regular reports to Management that brings visibility on product level related to compliance, spend and savings.
- Continuous improvement of Purchasing processes and technologies.
- Pursues leads/opportunities to increase leverage and supports their development where applicable, in close conjunction with the relevant Product Category and Cost Analyst team.
- Be aware of industry information/ benchmark.
- Overall owns the vendor negotiations, contract, Warranty settlement and all compliance requirement.
- Establishes baseline and target prices for negotiations.
- Builds and sustains a network with people in relevant related business areas to ensure knowledge transfer and sharing of best practices