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Segment Leader

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Entry level
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Entry level
Leads segment purchasing strategy across Valeo sites, ensuring competitive sourcing, supplier qualification, bidding, negotiations, performance improvement, risk mitigation, compliance, budgeting, and productivity gains. Chairs sourcing committees, manages supplier relationships, monitors key purchasing metrics, develops improvement plans, and aligns project buyers with regional segment strategies.
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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.

  • Achieves QCD’s performances of the segment for Valeo sites in his perimeter for serial and project purchasing. 

  • Ensure competitive bidding conditions are met at RFQ stage:

  • - Sufficient number of independent capable suppliers in Pre-SoCo Short list,

    - Sufficient number of valid quotations (with comprehensive details) received

    - Challenge and negotiate supplier bids (via auctions whenever possible)  

    - Result Bid analysis matrix available to enable apple to apple comparison and fair decision

  • GSD Regional representative for “Pre and Sourcing Committee” process

  • Chairman of the sourcing committee for Valeo site on his perimeter

  • Reject SoCo whenever competitive bidding conditions are not met.

  • Escalate and request arbitration at appropriate level in case of SoCo decision not bought or enforced in by Operations or Projects.

  • GSD representative for “gate keeper for in / out suppliers and NBOH process” for his perimeter assigned by GSD.

  • Regulates load capacity and dependency during business award process

  • Signs Generic VRF and Logistics Requirements with the suppliers assigned by GSD

  • Manages suppliers relationship on behalf of GSD on his perimeter

  • Fosters improvement of suppliers performance on his perimeter

  • Monitors supplier performance, Negotiates and Monitors Top Worst suppliers improvement plans of his segment on his perimeter

  • Leads supplier risk mitigation for the segment on his perimeter

  • Ensures respect of ethics and applicable laws with suppliers of his segment

  • Maintains strong relationship with Project Buyers to ensure their buy-in of the segment strategy and ensure region or Division specifics needs are addressed in the strategy of the segment  

  • Builds mid term visibility on new business awards and force bundling at earliest project stages

  • Prepares and drives annual purchasing budget process for his segment on his perimeter

  • Develops aggressive QCD improvement plan (incl. all levers) and obtains GSD validation

  • Undertake relevant analysis on key performance indicators and sets up related improvement plans.

  • Maintains updated data bases of purchasing spent and market evolutions of his segment on his perimeter 

KPIs :

  • Specific : 

  • Segment Purchasing Index

  • Segment Sourcing Ration and SoCo Metrics

  • Segment Productivity Reservoir, LTA’s and Booked Productivities

  • Risky suppliers indicator

Shared:

  • Projects Purchasing Index of the segment

  • Segment Service Rate

  • Unqualified Initial Samples 

Job:

Segment Leader

Organization:

Region Purchasing

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-10-20

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

Valeo US Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office

Chennai, India

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