Purchasing Engineer

1. Summary of the role
Specify the overall responsibilities and the main deliverables. Why do we need the role?
• Responsible for identifying, evaluating, and managing vendors to meet business needs
while ensuring cost efficiency, quality standards, and timely delivery. Drives material cost
reduction strategies, negotiates prices, and oversees contract administration. Proactively
addresses risks, resolves non-conformance issues, and aligns with market trends to
support operational and strategic goals.
2. Tasks and Responsibilities
Describe the tasks and responsibilities in more detail. Use bullet points.
• Identifying, evaluating and selecting vendors to meet internal business needs;
• Continuously monitoring/seeking and implementation of material cost reduction via
different methods and strategies, lead price negotiation;
• Ensuring adhere to requirements (delivery time, quality standards, etc.);
• Executing close, administration and invoice matching;
• Managing the commercial aspects of contracts such as change requests and claims etc.;
• Ensure to reach KPIs, make reporting in time;
• Keep abreast of market demand for those commodities we are using react on a timely
manner to any market fluctuation that might affect our demand/usage;
• Handle NCR, coordinate technical and quality departments to analyze the problems and
solve them finally;
• Identify and eliminate risks and work with cross-functional teams to develop mitigation
action and plans.
• Other tasks assigned by the Line Manager.