İzmir, Türkiye
• Lead purchasing activities for SCW2 limited series projects in serial production, ensuring alignment with program timing, milestones and SOP requirements. • Act as the purchasing lead within the project team, coordinating commodity buyers and ensuring execution in line with project targets. • Monitor and challenge commodity buyers’ deliverables across cost, timing, sourcing status and supplier readiness. • Provide structured feedback to the core project team on purchasing status, open risks, blocking points and escalation needs. • Support resolution of critical issues when commodity buyers face constraints, driving cross-functional problem-solving with Engineering, GPSQ, Logistics and suppliers. • Drive ECR follow-up from a project perspective, ensuring purchasing impacts are visible, tracked and aligned with stakeholders. • Lead cross-functional meetings for issue tracking, prioritization, escalation and closure. Selected Achievements • Lead purchasing scope for the Collection Edition project in serial life, supporting SOP readiness planned for May 2026. • Take ownership of purchasing leadership for palliative solutions in serial production, coordinating actions required to protect production continuity. • Act as the main purchasing interface for project topics, consolidating commodity inputs and ensuring visibility to management.
• Lead global sourcing activities for aftermarket commodities, including supplier selection, negotiations and sourcing recommendations. • Define and drive cost reduction roadmaps in line with MCIP targets, ensuring budget alignment. • Manage forecast and backlog for assigned commodity scope, maintaining cost and supply balance. • Evaluate the current supplier portfolio and conduct market research to identify alternatives and new sourcing opportunities. • Collaborate with Engineering, Marketing and Global Product Line Management for early involvement in new developments. • Support Supplier Quality during NPI and PPAP validation phases to secure supplier and product readiness. Selected Achievements • Drive global cost reduction and sourcing actions aligned with commodity strategy and MCIP expectations. • Strengthen the supplier portfolio through benchmarking, market analysis and alternative sourcing initiatives. • Contribute to global commodity strategy definition under the leadership of the Global Commodity Manager.
Manage project purchasing activities for BEV / ePWT components within the Smart Car Wave 2 program. • Take over parts from commodity buyers and ensure project follow-up until SOP phase. • Coordinate ECR topics with Engineering and suppliers, ensuring timing, feasibility and cost alignment. • Lead cost negotiations for cases impacting contractual pricing and approval flow. • Manage prototype and pre-production part follow-up across SRUB, VRS1, VRS2 and VRSEL phases. • Follow APQP activities with suppliers and stakeholders; organize regular project follow-up meetings. • Manage tooling follow-up, tool kick-off meetings, CAPE approvals and PO / purchase letter coordination. • Escalate critical topics to PPM and management when risks impact project timing or supplier readiness. Selected Achievements • Ensure structured handover, project follow-up and re-handover of parts to serial buyers before SOP. • Support supplier readiness and milestone achievement across prototype, tooling and pre-production phases.
Manage sourcing activities for new parts, including supplier identification, RFQ process, supplier selection and commercial negotiation. • Lead purchasing and part development activities for cabin tractor projects, including MR / Stage IIIB regulation implementation scope. • Manage supplier development activities and support purchasing processes for casting components. • Lead localization activities for casting parts and support transition to serial production. • Define product costing structures and escalation formulas; negotiate with suppliers on cost, quality and delivery topics. • Coordinate prototype part dispatch and fitment trial activities with India teams. • Conduct supplier visits, supplier assessments and performance follow-ups together with SQA. • Ensure technical documentation readiness, including dimensional, material and welding reports. Selected Achievements • Lead purchasing and part development processes for MR / Stage IIIB regulation implementation on cabin tractors. • Coordinate supplier development and industrialization actions required for new cabin components and aftermarket spare parts.
• Manage supplier development and supplier performance activities • Conduct supplier audits and follow up improvement actions • Support purchasing activities including RFQ, quotation analysis, and supplier selection • Monitor supplier performance (quality, delivery, cost) and drive corrective actions • Work closely with quality and production teams for supplier-related issues Key Achievements: • Establish supplier development function within the organization • Represent Purchasing in customer audits and IATF processes • Lead supplier performance improvement and audit readiness activities