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Accurate Heating Procurement Engineer

Barcelona Area, Spain, ES - Information Technology and Services

Description

Part of the Procurement professionals team within HP Central Direct Procurement Services organization (CDPS), working for the Large Format Printers business (LFP). He/she will be accountable to manage strategic vendors and manufacturing partners mainly related to accurate heating technologies, from a business and technical stand points, with main focus in new product development phases. He/She will work in an international organization, interacting with suppliers and organizations worldwide. He/She will have to work very close with LFP R&D to understand new technology needs, provide market and design for cost, quality & manufacturability inputs, and industrialize the assigned parts and subsystems. He/She will have to master the market related to heating, curing and drying, and related suppliers for components, sensors, controls, continuously improving Cost, Quality and Assurance of Supply, and identifying adjacent new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• • Responsible for the sourcing strategy of new heating enabling technologies,

* working with R&D to maximize leverage from existing solutions in the market, as well as selecting the best solution for each accurate heating challenge.

* building market technology and cost intelligence at part/subsystem/function level, identifying the possible suppliers.

* influencing early design decisions to get the most efficient inbound supply chain for new products (dfx).

* considering the entire product life cycle needs.

• Responsible to select and manage the assigned suppliers,

* integrating the needs of all the New Program Developments and entities (LFP, Product Generation Operations, Global Manufacturing Operations, CDPS, Distribution Centers, Service,…) and driving their results.

* negotiating with vendors pre and post Manufacturing Release Cost Reduction, and the rest of business deliverables (including terms & conditions, contracts and Intellectual Property handling).

* growing a strong partner relationship by building personal empathy and thru proactive and fair interactions.

* leading HP internal alignment, ensuring consistent messages to the vendors.

* periodical business reviews to suppliers, including performance evaluation and development plan.

• Ensure the Procurement technical deliverables are met,

* including parts/subassemblies specs clarification, manufacturing processes, tooling, quality control plan, assurance of supply, prototypes for builds, metrology.

* proactively working with the rest of CDPS team and with Manufacturing Partners (MPas), responsible for some NPD technologies and for production activities (once the product is introduced in the market).

• Project Manager for assigned Procurement processes or projects, leading their implementation within the organization.

Qualifications

Bachelor's (or upper) Degree in Mechanical, Thermodynamics or Industrial Engineering with:

1. Minimum 4 years of experience on thermodynamic systems design, as R&D engineer, as materials engineer, as manufacturing engineer, or equivalent.

2. Fluent in English. Availability to travel.

3. Solid Technical and Business skills: Strong technology knowhow and market intelligence (intuition, inquisitiveness, strategic vision).

4. Strong negotiation skills: Able to get the best deal for HP without breaking the relationship and without impacting the schedules. Good control of the communication pace. Creating empathy with the partner.

5. Project Management skills: Able to deploy cross-organizational implementation plans thru partners, timely track progress, identify deviations and proactively take corrective actions. Strong leadership, able to effectively sell own ideas, and to influence others to buy-in and follow them without having direct control.

6. Strong Team Building and teamwork: Able to build rapport with partners so that new ideas can be accepted smoothly; and to give/receive open and honest feedback in a positive attitude.

7. Excellent Presentation and Communication skills: Able to integrate different organizations by actively listening to all parties to make internal tradeoff decisions and to ensure consistency in front of the partners. Clear presentations, going directly to the point and transmitting high level of confidence.

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