Summary: This role involves developing supplier relationships, monitoring inventory, planning materials, negotiating contracts, ensuring timely procurement, and managing supplier performance for a site-related procurement unit. Highlights: 1. Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships 2. Negotiate contracts and manage procurement processes 3. Ensure timely delivery and manage supplier performance Durango, MX, Mexico \| Purchasing #### **Job Description** Developing and maintaining working relations with suppliers assigned. Monitoring stock and inventories of local warehouses, and planning quantities of parts and materials needed, with respect to production and delivery plans. Negotiating contracts and specific conditions for delivery of parts, materials or services. Ensuring timely procurement and order management to ensure parts and materials are appropriately delivered Ensuring supplier performance reporting, announcing and clarifying claims, if necessary A job at this level… Leads low\-volume site related procurement unit to buy assigned standardized / limited range of parts and materials for one plant or site Contributes to the superior plans and related budgets. Manages and continuously improve assigned procurement processes, to ensure work is as efficient as possible. Negotiates deliveries, within given limits; accountable locally for claim management. Manages locally relevant supplier contacts within own part of the value chain.