Responsibilities
You will work in close consultation with all Product Market Groups (PMGs) in the organisation. In the area of castings you will work together with the PMG Dredge Equipment. This PMG contains the fully IHC owned foundry Allard as a capacity center. You create and maintain commercial relationships with key external suppliers that bring sustainability, knowledge, efficiency and standardization into the IHC network. You create framework agreements with key suppliers. Subsequently, project buyers can utilize these agreements for actual buying. You are responsible for cost efficient and timely sourcing of high quality products, maintain supplier relationships and safeguard quality and performance across projects.
You will:
Work with Sales and Design & Engineering to ensure key suppliers and their long term contracts are aligned to current and future customer needs;
In the area of castings, manage external suppliers whilst maximizing utilization of IHC's own foundry which is located in Turnhout, Belgium;
Create cost efficient framework supply agreements with the key suppliers;
Effectively manage the tail of suppliers with smaller spend;
Monitor and control the procurement process, whilst pushing for increased simplicity and efficiency;
Take a proactive stance towards IHC's PMGs, especially with the PMG Dredge Equipment.
Especially for hydraulics, tap into the knowledge of colleagues with the PMGs Oil & Gas and Renewables.