Sourcing & Supplier Relation Manager

Are you the Turkey Area Sourcing Manager  who is going to take care of our Private Brand Sourcing opportunities, supplier relation management, supply chain performance, product quality & compliance in the Turkey region? Are you flexible and like to travel with the ability to effectively collaborate with HQ peers and stakeholders? Then this great Turkey Area Procurement team, part of KRAMP Group Europe's leading Agricultural, Forrest & Grass care & Construction wholesaler, would like to get to know you.

We are looking for a passionate, energetic, and highly motivated

Sourcing & Supplier Relation Manager

for the Turkey Area, based in Ankara

who is a committed, pro-active and communicative procurement professional and team player. You are eager to achieve the best for the Turkey regional Procurement team and supporting KRAMP Head Quarter Category Management, Strategic Procurement in close collaboration with Product Quality, Operational Procurement and Transport Management.  

What is your role?   

• Identify, audit, develop suppliers fitting in the Agricultural business and maintain supplier relations in the Turkish market to support the growing business in Europe 
• Responsible for sourcing, contracting and managing the overall vendor performance per contractual price, condition, service level agreements (SLA) and ensures vendor conformity to enterprise standards, operational processes, and management guidelines to ensure business goals are achieved. Acts as single point of accountability for internal and external business partners in the Turkey Area.  
• Coordinate with our HQ resources to execute sourcing assignments, sourcing selecting and contracting the best in class supplier base, against best price, conditions and supply chain performance SLA’s, while manage that this performance will be delivered
• This role will require close coordination with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective delivery and compliance with contractual obligations. Supporting the operational purchase order process to flourish up-stream supply chain performance of the agricultural suppliers in Turkey Area.
   

Your specific tasks include:   

• Sourcing of right suppliers
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal customers and  Supplier portfolio in the Turkey source area 
• Manage that the supplier portfolio is delivering the supply chain performance according to the contracted SLA. Monitoring underperformance, address root causes, initiating improvements road maps.
• Focus on cost savings. Negotiate with suppliers on cost and maintaining commitments. Carry out comprehensive price negotiation and analyze suppliers production units. Aggressively track and improve non-compliance preferred supplier(s). 
• Identify and convert cost reduction opportunities based on solid understanding of cost drivers and manufacturing processes 
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on supply chain health 
• Initiate and complete supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet product quality and compliance, coordinating golden sample testing and random QC inspections before shipments approval.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to define and improve product specifications and requirements to ensure quality and compliant components.

Your team 

To reinvent an industry, we are challenged build the best team. Join Kramp if you want to bring the best Kramp Agricultural assortment into the Workshop of every Agri Dealer, contractor and Farmer in Europe. 

The Global Sourcing & Supplier Relation Manager Teams in several area’s, source components from all over the world which are of mayor importance to the success of our Kramp Brand in Europe. Our team must carefully balance our needs to lower costs while ensuring high-quality, reliability and secure supply. You will work with our suppliers face-to-face in your source area expand the capabilities of Kramp and directly improve our assortment and supply chain performance.

Who are you? 

For this job we have a couple of requirements:   

• A visible and easy to go person 
• Highly self-motivated and energetic 
• Sound strategic Procurement knowledge, and general international business understanding of category management, product quality and compliance, supply chain management 
• Bachelor, preferably Master degree. 
• Demonstratable International business experience in a similar role/organisation. 

What do we offer?   

We are an ambitious, fast-growing and financially sound organization. You can obviously expect:  

• Flexible working policy in hours and location 

• Travel- and working from home allowance 

• Profit sharing bonus 

• Great budget for training and courses 

• Generous pension plan 

Do you want to join us?  
In case you feel challenged by the above role description and requirements, we are interested in meeting you! Please use the application button and send your CV and cover letter. 

Do you have a question about this role? Please do not hesitate to contact our Manager Talent Acquisition, cindy.ridder@kramp.com.

About us  

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA.   

Working at Kramp means:  

… you belong here! ​Being part of our open business community​  
… your work makes a difference!​ Have an impact on what matters  

… you will develop and realize​! Learn and realize your potential  

 More about Kramp: https://www.careeratkramp.com