Volvo

Senior Buyer (Indirect) Logistics

Volvo • $90K — $110K *
Ridgeville, SC 29472In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Supply Chain, or related field
  • Minimum of five years of procurement, supply chain, or relevant industry experience
  • Multi-year experience leading sourcing activities and supplier negotiations
  • Proven relationship management with senior and executive stakeholders
  • Proficiency in MS Office and procurement-related systems (Coupa, Ariba, etc)

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end sourcing activities from requirement alignment to cost analysis
  • Own supplier relationships and manage performance and value delivery
  • Develop sourcing strategies that align with business goals
  • Identify and mitigate various supplier and operational risks
  • Drive improvements in procurement processes for efficiency and compliance
  • Support contract development and manage supplier agreements

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to advanced procurement tools and systems
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Involvement in strategic initiatives that drive business outcomes
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Core Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end sourcing activities including business requirement alignment, RFQ execution, supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, implementation, and total cost of ownership analysis.
  • Own assigned categories and supplier relationships, including commercial evaluation, performance management, governance, and value delivery.
  • Develop sourcing strategies and recommendations that support business objectives and informed decision-making.
  • Identify and mitigate supplier, commercial, operational, and business risks through appropriate planning and escalation.
  • Drive procurement process improvements that enhance efficiency, compliance, stakeholder experience, and business outcomes.
  • Support contract development and supplier agreements through a working knowledge of commercial and legal terms.


What you'll bring

Job Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Supply Chain or a related field
  • Minimum of five years of procurement, supply chain, or relevant industry experience
  • Multi-year ownership of leading sourcing activities, supplier negotiations, and commercial evaluations
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage relationships with senior and executive stakeholders, influence decisions, present leadership audiences, and drive alignment on strategic initiatives.
  • Proficiency in MS Office and procurement-related systems (Coupa, Ariba, etc)


Competencies
  • Scenario Based Decision Making: Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate ambiguity into actionable items. Commercial acumen with a focus on total cost of ownership, value creation, and risk management.
  • Leadership and Influence: Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple functions and organizational levels. Demonstrates consistent informal leadership through positive influence, knowledge sharing, and collaboration
  • Strategic Focus - Maintain strategic focus by balancing risk mitigation, creating long term value, legal implications, escalation paths, and continuous improvement through proactive adaptable and clear communications.
  • Negotiation Leadership: Strong negotiation capabilities and ability to develop sourcing strategies within assigned responsibility areas. Advanced negotiation capabilities. Experience applying multiple negotiation approaches, including face to face, reverse auctions, multi-round verbal
  • Category Strategy and Ownership: Manage multiple projects simultaneously while delivering strong results and meeting stakeholder timelines. Full accountability of commodity scope. Responsible for global work. urns unclear situations into structured scenarios, new process or uncharted scenario, employee engages into solutions before escalating. Solution oriented and pragmatic approach.

About Volvo

Volvo Car Corporation is a Swedish luxury automobile marque. It is headquartered in Torslanda in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company manufactures and markets sport utility vehicles (SUVs), station wagons, sedans and compact executive sedans. The Volvo Group was founded in 1927 as a subsidiary of the ball bearing manufacturer SKF. When Volvo AB was introduced on the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935, SKF sold most of the shares in the company. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group. Geely Holding Group then acquired Volvo Cars from Ford in 2010.
Learn more about Volvo
Size
105,000 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Founded
1927
* Ladders Estimates

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