Indirect Product Purchasing Supervisor - São Caetano do Sul - BRA

Job Description

Work Arrangement - Hybrid– This position requires the employee to be hybrid 3x per week on-site.

What You’ll Do

Leadership and Team Management

• Supervise, monitor, coach, and develop employees across different locations while building an effective global team.
• Provide technical leadership to the team and collaborate with multifunctional teams to achieve business targets.
• Identify and lead staffing initiatives for the work team.
• Conduct regularly scheduled team meetings and communicate GM policies, procedures, leadership messages, and safety expectations.
• Communicate the functional vision and strategy, including preparing and delivering presentations when required.
• Ensure employees complete all mandatory GM training and any additional training related to their functional responsibilities.
• Support employees’ career development goals and develop initiatives that improve team capability and capacity.
• Assign and balance workloads for direct reports and establish individual and team priorities.
• Evaluate employee performance and behaviors, provide candid and constructive feedback, and facilitate performance interventions when necessary.
• Recognize employee contributions formally and informally, provide timely and consistent feedback, and participate in compensation planning and administration.

Purchasing, Systems, and Supplier Management

• Serve as the indirect purchasing lead for new systems implementations, including SAP and SAP S/4HANA.
• Act as the focal point for Conduent performance in Brazil.
• Manage supplier relationships and operational performance.
• Optimize the supplier footprint to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and value.
• Interface with internal stakeholders to clarify prerequisites, align expectations, and drive cost-reduction initiatives.
• Analyze and apply appropriate purchasing and cost-management tools, including:
  • Cost models and benchmarking.
  • Global competitive sourcing.
  • Value-chain analysis.
  • Supplier negotiations.
  • Engineering-change cost containment.
  • Technical cost reduction.
  • Part and system reuse.

Risk Management, Problem Solving, and Execution

• Identify risks and communicate them clearly and appropriately to the relevant stakeholders.
• Identify problems and update or modify work methods in complex situations, including when defined procedures are not available.
• Lead the team through new methods and initiatives in situations where procedures have not yet been established.
• Influence stakeholders across the organization to adopt new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Remove roadblocks and resolve potential issues, complaints, and operational challenges.
• Review and approve employee work schedules, overtime, expenses, and other work-related records.
• Promote GM values and make customer-focused decisions.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, coaching, and developing employees.
• Ability to lead teams across multiple locations and collaborate effectively in a global environment.
• Experience in indirect purchasing, procurement operations, supplier management, or a related function.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to present vision, strategy, risks, and recommendations clearly.
• Ability to identify risks, solve complex problems, remove roadblocks, and make sound business decisions.
• Experience managing priorities, assigning workloads, monitoring performance, and developing team capability.
• Ability to influence others and drive the adoption of new concepts, practices, processes, and systems.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively with multifunctional teams and manage competing priorities.
• Commitment to GM values, customer focus, safety, integrity, and inclusion.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience leading or supporting SAP or SAP S/4HANA implementations.
• Experience managing indirect purchasing teams or global procurement operations.
• Experience with Conduent performance management or outsourced service-provider governance in Brazil.
• Experience using cost models, benchmarking, competitive sourcing, value-chain analysis, supplier negotiations, technical cost reduction, engineering-change cost containment, or part and system reuse.
• Experience optimizing supplier footprints and delivering measurable cost reductions.
• Experience leading teams through organizational change, new methods, or initiatives without established procedures.
• Experience with compensation planning, employee development programs, and performance-management processes.
• Experience working in a multinational or automotive environment.
• Fluency in English and Portuguese.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need gm immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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