Acheteur projet - Après-ventes / Project Buyer - Aftermarket

Wabtec•Montreal, QC

5d•CA$72,500 - CA$96,000•Onsite

About The Position

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! You will be working within a multicultural, young, and dynamic team, comprised of talented professionals. The team is distinguished by its diversity and energy, offering a stimulating and enriching work environment. Our service is structured into two major teams: the OEM team, which focuses on integrating our products from the vehicle design stage, and the after-sales service buyers' team, dedicated to managing and optimizing after-sales parts and services. This structure will allow you to effectively address the various aspects of our sector and meet the varied needs of our clients.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Purchasing, or Supply Chain Management, or Operations and Production Management or related field.
Minimum 3 years’ experience in purchasing projects and preferably in a globalized industrial environment.
Have team spirit and interpersonal professional skills for effective communication with suppliers, customers and related personnel.
Mastery of the MS Office Suite.
Thorough knowledge of Excel, intermediate to expert level.
Ability to work independently, solve practical problems and take initiative.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to work well under stress.
Precision and attention to detail.
Knowledge of quality systems.
Bilingual (English/French), both written and spoken. Knowledge of French is required for positions permanently based in Quebec to enable communication, as needed, with colleagues and suppliers in Quebec. French language training is offered to any permanent employee in Quebec who does not have sufficient knowledge of French.
Must be willing to travel as required 10% or less.
Must be able to travel to the United States for business travel.
Valid driver’s license.
Fully proficient with various information systems and Excel.

Responsibilities

Improve contract margins
Ensure the lowest total cost of ownership
Negotiate within the organization to enhance contract profit margins
Manage all aspects of purchasing for assigned projects from the tendering phase
Work with Aftermarket teams and commodity buyers to drive supplier selection
Utilize standard R&D products
Ensure the proper development of engineered parts
Implement APQP (Assistance, Product Quality Planning) and comprehensive supplier management throughout the development process
Act as a liaison between technical development, commodity buyers, quality assurance, and suppliers
Be involved upstream: launch studies and price estimation during tender phase
Participate in make-or-buy decisions and in the decision process to cluster single components into comprehensive sub-assemblies
Challenge the Bill of Material in order to propose price and cost reductions
Use standard R&D products
Organize the Sourcing activities to allow development of the spend in the low-cost countries/to allow development of the complete localization of the BOM
Fully responsible of purchasing Quality Cost Delay (QCD) on assigned scope of work
Guarantee from the tender to start of production: Purchasing Cost Control, fulfill project needs
Challenge to meet pricing targets, then apply this purchasing strategy to the commodity buyer
Integrate from the contract and the development phase the service’s needs (no private label, performance and price of the spares life.)
Launch RFQ on selected vendor panel approved by Quality, Customer Service, Engineering and Commodity Buyer
Manage suppliers and the purchasing quality cost delay improvement plan
Organize and manage technical reviews with technology partners, Supplier Quality, Engineering and Supply Chain in order to formalize the Team Feasibility Commitment at supplier selection and guarantee the achievement of the Technical Specification
Participate on proactively improving purchasing’s performance