What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tactical Buyer position at Kalmar?
Kalmar keeps global trade moving. Our innovative solutions contribute to every fourth container movement in the world and help transform the future of cargo handling. We believe in collaboration, delivering on our promises and that people make the difference.
Making your next move count
The main focus area will be to handle inquiries from the frontline units for the Non-stocked items.
The role will be to support the customers with the best service, price and availability information and speed of delivery.
As in addition, a person employed in this position will support Service Sourcing team members in operational and daily work, support data gathering etc.
Key Accountabilities:
- Owning responsibility, performance for Sales Force case handling related to US FLU.
- Monitor and support price and lead time RFQs per FLU / selected market area for non-stocked items
- Agree on lead time and price for all Purchase orders of non stocked. Update standard costs in SAP
- Proactively follow purchase order backlog and delivery dates for given Market Area / FLUs, apply adjustments and communicates with countries using reporting or dashboards
- Run bi-weekly meetings with FLUs, collecting Country needs, feedback and Order prioritization and improve the delivery dates, remove the roadblocks, convey the priorities to other buyers and sourcing if necessary
- Daily interaction with suppliers via email, phone.
- Escalate urgent supplier or technical issues to Sourcing Specialist.
- Serve as backup to Sourcing Specialist if out of office
What you’ll need to succeed:
Education
- Commercial, Logistics or Technical - Bachelor degree. Automotive and/or Logistics.
- Economic or Sourcing background will be an advantage.
Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in Purchasing or Material planning.
Competencies
- Personality: Service-minded, customer-centric and proactive in communication towards the country organization (organize, lead, create follow-ups and memos).
- Able to deal with challenging internal customers, and challenging conversations with high exposure to the FLU (perseverance and focus on finding the best solutions for the customer).
- Able to fulfil multiple assignments with a high level of independence.
- Analytical and target-oriented.
- Global mindset, excellent communication skills and through various platforms email, phone, SF, hangouts
- System knowledge: SAP, QLIKVIEW, Salesforce, Google platform (sheets), intermediate to advanced Excel user
- Fluent in English
You will be part of:
We believe in our people as it is our people who really make the difference. We always work in close collaboration with our customers, deliver on our promises and never walk away no matter how big the challenge. We succeed because we do it together.
With us, you will have the opportunity to realise your potential and become an important member of our global team.
Interested to join?
Please submit your resume/CV today to be considered!
Kalmar is part of Cargotec
Kalmar offers the widest range of cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals, distribution centres and to the heavy industry. Kalmar is the industry forerunner in terminal automation and in energy efficient container handling, with one in four container movements around the globe being handled by a Kalmar solution. Through its extensive product portfolio, global service network and ability to enable a seamless integration of different terminal processes, Kalmar improves the efficiency of every move. www.kalmarglobal.com
Kalmar is part of Cargotec. Cargotec's (Nasdaq Helsinki: CGCBV) sales in 2020 totalled approximately EUR 3.3 billion and it employs around 11,000 people.
