Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain sourcing commodity strategy in line with the global procurement strategy.
- Perform all sourcing actions with excellent knowledge on product, supply market, its players and contracting techniques.
- Investigate, select, develop and optimally manage sources of supplies in order to minimize supply risk and total cost of ownership. Familiar with issuing bid requests and reviewing quotations.
- Full ownership (on all levels and subjects) of the relationship between Barco and the supplier. Supplier KPI performance management.
- Negotiate contracts between Barco and suppliers in order to maximize value for Barco (price, flexibility, risk, product advantage, etc.)
- Engage a close co-operation with R&D and Product mgt and ensure availability of supplier technology roadmaps for key product groups.
- Assist the Logistic Buyers in the operational purchasing activities in case of repetitive default and/or deviations from contract.

Education:
- Bachelor degree or above, prefer optical background.

Experience:
- More than 5 years of procurement/sourcing experience in the area of LCM.

Competencies:
- Knowledge of principles and practices of purchasing.
- Social relation skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships, and to connect well as a team player. Able to build a strategic partnership with internal customers through excellent customer focus.
- Good in English, excellent communication skills, and experience in influencing others with well thought out recommendations.
- Strong negotiator and result oriented.
- Full of initiative and organizational awareness.
- Analytical, accurate and high quality work.
- Able to set priorities, excellent organizing, planning and problem solving skills.
- Possess strong listening and negotiating qualities to anticipate and resolve hurdles.
- Possess conflict management skills to handle people matters.
- Come with creative solutions. Open for learning new things.
- Able to travel.
- Worked for international company, familiar with cooperation with stakeholders from different countries (cultures) is a plus.
- SAP experience is a plus.