Job Description

Location: Kulim
Job ID: HRC0345794

Job description
In your new role you will:

• PROC marketing for an accounted product or services segment, using the pooling potential for all sites of Infineon (and Joint Ventures if applicable), in order to achieve an excellent supply base with the best terms.
• Responsible for medium to large volumes and / or medium to high complexity of the categories.

• Pooling of demand from various sites to increase procurement power to best possible effect. (F)
• Operations Plan (Blue Book) with yearly goals and estimated market price development to inform Infineon Management and sites about planned strategy and main areas of activities. (F)
• Supplier management

• The Category Manager is the communication provider (spokesperson) to the most important suppliers and specifically focus on global sourcing, selection, evaluation, and the development (out-phasing) to acquire the most promising and best suppliers and to guarantee an optimum on purchased quality and supply chain. (F)
• Co-ordinate a cross-functional \xe2\x80\x9cFocus on Value\xe2\x80\x9d team (products or services). (F)
• Contract management

• Negotiation of global contracts and agreements to include a common sense of understanding into contracts to have a clear, understandable and cost-effective regulation among the entire Infineon community and to guarantee certainty of supply with the best terms. (F)
• Intensive, regular contact with internal/external interface partners to especially built up and maintain a communicative procurement network recognize developments (in market, demand, etc.) and to influence accordingly. (P)
• Reporting of results

• Comprehensive reporting of cost reduction / avoidance is executed monthly to inform all sites and the Procurement Heads about the valid details per plant / segment in order to make the results transparent and to control the activities of the CM on a result-oriented basis and against the Operations Plan. (F)
• Risk reporting

• In case of severe problems (catastrophes or others) extended information is lined out; risks are quarterly reported according to the rules of Infineon Corp. Risk Management. (F)
• Relationship management

• Professionally manage supplier relationship with most important suppliers to ensure suppliers management attention and participation on both sides to continuously enhance collaboration.(P)
• Project support

• Actively support local projects (e.g. new plants or modules) to take the pooling power also into projects and to use project demand to establish better terms for normal demand. (P)

Your profile
You are best equipped for this task if you have:

• Functional Knowledge

1. Training/qualification:

• High level of engineering degree (or equivalent buyer expertise)

or

• High level of BA degree with advanced level of understanding for technical requirements or proofed competence on local level

2. Job experience:

• Approx. 5+ years job experience on a Senior Buyer level or in a partner function with high focus on technical issues communicated with suppliers

• Intercultural working experience advantageous

3. Extent of technical knowledge in own area:

• Internal expert in CoC segment

4. Extent of technical knowledge in other areas:

• General knowledge in TS16949/ISO14001/EFQM) and Audits

Business Expertise
1. Degree of knowledge of internal interdependencies (organization, workflow, customers, suppliers):

• Have high understanding and partly expert knowledge about customer needs required across Infineon (e.g. products to be purchased and it\'s cost structure and/or processes to be influenced etc.)

2. Degree of knowledge of external
environment (market, competitors, products, industries):

• Basic level of understanding in respect of changing markets(seller vs. buyer markets

• Knowledge about semiconductors, semiconductor industry and it\'s customers advantageous

3. Degree of knowledge of other
relevant organizations (legal, governmental, professional organizations):

• Advanced contractual knowledge

Driving decarbonization and digitalization. Together.

Infineon designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of semiconductors and semiconductor-based solutions, focusing on key markets in the automotive, industrial, and consumer sectors. Its products range from standard components to special components for digital, analog, and mixed-signal applications to customer-specific solutions together with the appropriate software.

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