Commodity Manager

Commodity Manager

Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87.000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

Full responsibility of Leadership and  People Development :

▪ Implement and maintain a network within the Category  and the other Categories within the Cluster organization to share competence and best practices

▪ Coach and develop the team and employee

▪ Actively support the team and employees in case of problems

▪ Control the target achievement for the Category

▪ Representing entire Global Category for China and align with global category manager

Full responsibility of Achieve best market conditions:

▪ Actively influence the sourcing process through:    ▪ Supplier selection    ▪ Negotiation of prices and closure of contracts     ▪ Sourcing decision

▪ Provide whole China demand of the global category and align with global category management the impact and executive on the platform sourcings 

Full responsibility of Negotiation:

▪ Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation of AUMOVIO in case of escalation

▪ Negotiate with suppliers and represent AUMOVIO in front of the supplier's management 

▪ Apply negotiation concepts (like Advanced negotiation concept) to actively support & execute bundling within the respective Category

▪ Negotiate non conformance cost with suppliers

Full responsibility of Contract Management:

▪ Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts with the respective suppliers 

Full responsibility of Data maintenance :

▪ Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems

▪ Responsibility for monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement

Shared response of Material and Supplier strategy:

▪ Develop a material and supplier strategy:     ▪ Conduct market analysis     ▪ Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners     ▪ Ensure that AUMOVIO requirements are reflected in the strategy     ▪ Define and develop supplier portfolio for China in align with the global category
 ▪ Document and implement the strategy in all BAs and ensure sourcing execution     ▪ Support GCM with BASE evaluation and creation of the strategic SCF

Support to Continous Cost reduction:

▪ Support re-design in cost reduction programs

▪ Drive improvement programs with suppliers

Qualifications

Required experience:

-Several years of experience in different purchasing functions;

-Experience in leadership position;

-Capability to negotiate and operate with different cultures;

-Experience in working with international teams on Purchasing issues;

-Understanding for different foreign cultures (NAFTA/ Asia, several European cultures);

Required knowledge:

Expert level:

-Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc.);

-Human relations skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking);

-Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures;

-Procurement  Process  and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge;

-Technical understanding of specific components;

-Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.;

Advanced level:

-Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques;

-Project management skills, tools and techniques;

-Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms (IATF 19649/ VDA 6.1);

-Risk Management

 

Additional Information

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