Indirect Purchasing SSC Leader

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Would you like to be a part of our success?

Join the team as a INDIRECT PURCHASING SSC LEADER at Valeo Auto-Electric Hungary Ltd. in Veszprém, Piramis str. 1.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages Indirect Purchasing Buyers, ensures staff availability and grow the competences through SDP within the Group Purchasing organization .
• Collaborates with Segment Leaders and Segment Directors to achieve KPI Targets and enforce Segment strategies & Panels within her/his country and internal customers.
• Is accountable for KPI achievements on her/his perimeter (Country / SSC)
• Proposes and implement productivity actions for the sites through -30 plant attendance and ensure transversalization across sites with his perimeter.
• Negotiate Global, Regional, Local contracts in collaboration with related Segment Leaders
• Provide local support whenever required to other entities, to optimize supplier panel in his region whether for business increase or decrease based on competitiveness of the environment.
• Ensures timely updates and improvement of Indirect Purchasing Portal and Web-Catalogs of her/his country
• Collects internal customers MTP and local needs to prepare annual Budgets supported by identified productivity reservoir and innovations
• Monitor smooth performance of administrative indirect procurement processes in line with requirements and procedures (Supplier Introduction, Supplier Creation process, SoCo, Purchase requests, Purchase Orders, Receiving's, Litigations...)
• Ensure appropriate trainings, usage, update of Purchasing IS tools (PuMa, e-Proc, HANA, GPS) in line with validated processes by Finance dept.
• Perform regular compliance checks on his organization and take relevant corrective actions whenever appropriate
• Provides with her/his team necessary support to internal customers (requesters) on all Indirect purchasing tools (e-Proc, PuMa,...) and processes (Supplier Creation..).
• Provides efficient and effective support to operations to solve supplier crisis whenever needed.

LET´S TALK ABOUT YOU

• Experience/ knowledge in the automotive
• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong negotiation skills
• 10 years of purchasing experience
• People management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent English knowledge

WE OFFER

• 13th-month salary
• Manager bonus
• Cafeteria frame
• Company health insurance
• Modern site with quality work equipment
• Stability at a well-established multinational company
• Company Canteen
• Employee referral program
• Employee Assistance Program
• School starting support
• ONE package
• Energy subsidy allowance / Accommodation support

Job:

Purchasing Manager

Organization:

SSC Indirect

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-06-26

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com