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KUHN Group purchase organisation

The Kuhn Group has grown significantly in the last years. It is now composed of 6 production units in Europe (5 in France and 1 in the Netherlands), 2 in North America (USA) and 3 in South America (2 in Brazil and 1 in Argentina). Thanks to all those units we can propose to our customers an important range of agricultural machineries.

The importance of the group's purchasing potential and its great diversity have led us to build an organization to develop synergies. This organization is based on a coordination unit and a transversal purchasing function in which we have defined 3 purchasing models for the European part of the group:

- Local purchase
- Purchase lead by a pilot buyer
- Central purchase

OUR JOBS

local BUYER

Goal: In charge to manage, one or several purchase portfolio for the site
Assignments:
- Sourcing
- Initiate a price inquiry and select the article-supplier couple
- Contractualize (negotiation of the contract terms)
- Place the order of the sample
Qualities/skills required:
- Good sense of interaction
- Reactive in problem solving
- Be comfortable with the negotiation (facility to argue/convince)
- Knowledge of the product and market characteristics
- Solid basis in transport (incoterm, customs, payment method)
- Curiosity

lEAD BUYER

Goal: In charge to define the purchase strategy from one or several purchase family of whom he is the leader.
Assignments:
- Sourcing
- Define the supplier’s panel for the entire group
- Run the local buyer’s team
- Manage the litigation
Qualities / skills required:
- Good sense of interaction
- Be comfortable with the negotiation (facility to argue/convince)
- Solid basis in transport (incoterm, customs, payment method)
- Knowledge of the product and market characteristics
- Curiosité

Have a vision of the group's purchases

CENTRal BUYER

Goal: In charge from one or several purchase wallet/portfolio for the KUHN group.
Assignments:
- Sourcing
- Develop call for tender (CFT)
- Study the CFT answer and evaluate the supplier’s ability to respond to the request
- Negotiation of the contract terms
Qualities / skills required:
- Good sense of interaction, the communication inside the group is essential
- Be comfortable with the negotiation (facility to argue/convince)
- Solid basis in transport (incoterm, customs, payment method)
- Knowledge of the product and market characteristics
- Curiosity

Have a vision of the group's purchases

provider

Goal: Guarantee supply of assembly lines.
Assignments:
- Follow-up supplier’s order (order acknowledgement of receipt treatment, delivery tracking, and order reminder)
- Manage the stock and their optimization
- Optimize the packaging from the supplier to the assembly line
- Run and coordinate the supplier relationship
- Follow up the indicators: service rate, coverage rate
Qualities / skills required:
- Good sense of interaction and capacity of negotiation
- Rigorous and reactive in problem solving
- Good resistance to stress
- A team player

Supplier quality engineer

Goal: Support the suppliers in the objective of quality required by Kuhn
Assignments:
- Handle/Manage supplier’s non-compliance (non-compliance treatment, answer request treatment)
- Follow-up the supplier quality (audit, action plan)
- Follow-up the piece quality (manage the quality instruction and supplier quality assurance files)
Qualities / Skills required:
- Knowledge in fabrication process and quality management
- Communication skills
- Technical curiosity (allows to understand quickly different situations)
- A team player, with an analytical mind and deductive skills

Purchasing assiStant

Goal: In charge to assist all the co-worker during the purchasing process.
Assignments:
- Manage orders (administrative and logistic follow-up)
- Management of the supplier’s database
- Management of the inter company orders
Qualities/skills required:
- Good sense of interaction,
- Be comfortable with the negotiation
- Curiosity
- A team player

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