Operational Procurement, Supplier Performance Outsourcing

What You Will Do？

Contracted Capacity and Volume Governance

· Partner with the responsible Category Management team to define, negotiate, document, and maintain contracted capacity levels and volume agreements with suppliers, reflecting customer capacity requirements and business assumptions into commercially documented supplier commitments.

· Ensure that capacity and volume commitments are addressed during sourcing and business award decisions.

· Lead connecting relevant capacity commitments to be reflected in applicable procurement and capacity management systems.

· Coordinate commercial mitigation actions when capacity gaps are identified, including renegotiation, additional capacity commitments, new tooling, contractual remedies, or alternative sourcing.

· Support Category Management in assessing the commercial and contractual impact of supplier capacity constraints.

Executive-Level Material Shortage Escalations

· Act as the senior procurement escalation point for exceptional and business-critical material shortages after the standard Supply Chain Management escalation process has been exhausted.

· Work together with the responsible Category Management team and relevant cross-functional stakeholders to set up recovery planning including commercial decision-making, and drive commercial commitments and senior-level supplier actions.

· Lead or support supplier negotiations requiring engagement with supplier or manufacturer executive leadership.

· Manage procurement cases requiring senior internal communication with Procurement VP, SVP, or higher leadership.

· Apply executive procurement escalation to situations involving imminent production line stoppage, potential OEM impact, unresolved supply crisis, or significant commercial or financial exposure.

Supplier Resiliency and Commercial Risk Management

· Ensure that identified supplier risks are considered in category strategies, sourcing decisions, supplier nominations, and contract negotiations, including defining commercial mitigation measures together with Category Management and relevant stakeholders.

What You Need to Be Successful？

· Extensive experience in direct material procurement, Category Management, supplier management, or supply chain within a complex global manufacturing environment, preferably automotive or electronics.

· Strong commercial negotiation capability covering capacity, volume commitments, contractual conditions, safety stock, MOQ, SPQ, lead time, NCNR, tooling, business continuity, liability, and cost recovery.

· Proven experience in supplier risk management, shortage escalation, recovery planning, and executive-level supplier engagement.

· Strong understanding of Category Management and Supply Chain Management responsibilities and interfaces.

· Ability to convert operational supply requirements into commercially documented supplier commitments.

· Solid knowledge of sourcing governance, supplier contracts, capacity management, lifecycle management, and procurement master data.

· Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

· Structured project management and problem-solving capability.

· Ability to operate effectively in urgent supply, commercial, and supplier escalation situations.

· Experience working across global organizations, suppliers, and time zones.

· Familiarity with relevant procurement and supply-chain systems, including SAP IBP, SupplyOn, Ivalua, Xonar, and WebEDI, is beneficial.

What Makes You Eligible?

· Willingness to travel domestically and internationally to support supplier negotiations, executive escalations, audits, sourcing activities, and critical recovery situations.

· Willingness to work from a company office or supplier/customer location when business needs require on-site engagement.

· Ability to collaborate across global time zones and multicultural teams.

· Ability to engage directly with senior internal stakeholders and supplier executive management.

· Ability to manage commercially sensitive and time-critical supplier situations.

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment, allowing hybrid work approach

• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)

• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University

• Competitive wellness benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development