Indirect Product Purchasing Supervisor - São Caetano do Sul - BRA
General Motors South America · São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil
**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 immigra