Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university (MBA preferred).  Five + years experience in Purchasing/Production Control related environement and/or training (or less experience if MBA).  Requires knowledge of corporate purchasing interfaces, negotiation techniques, and contracts and business agreements.

Language Ability: Ability to read, analyzes, and interpret common technical/financial reports, and legal documents.  Daily contact required with planners, production associates, accounting and engineering is required.

Math Ability: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Understands business implications of decisions.  Displays orientation to profitability.  Develops and demonstrates a knowledge of the marker, competition, and industry they are assigned to.  Develops and implements cost saving measures.  Analyzes market and identifies external threats and opportunities. Adapts strategy to changing conditions.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual must have a high level of expertise importing/leveraging data for use in spreadsheets, graphs, and flowcharts.  Previous SAP experience is preferred.  High level of proficiency with software applications, including Microsoft Office - Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Travel: Approximately 25% of time.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Understands Customers and Market- Identifies and assesses information to achieve the most effective analysis of competitive, industry, market, governmental, and technological factors that influence our business.

Develop & communicate a shared ambition - Brings fresh insight and forms ambitious plans for the achievement of goals.  Consistent communication of these plans to a wide audience, ensuring that all employees understand the way forward and their role in the achievement of team, department, and organizational goals.

Inspire people - The ability to energize and inspire others with an unshakeable belief and passion for the success of Schindler by providing purpose and direction, showing courage and encouraging others to do the same.

Promotes teamwork - Builds strong, cohesive teams and work across organizational, functional, geographic, and zone boundaries.  Leverage best practices from different parts of the organization and maximize economies of scale. 

Develops people - Creates a learning environment and commitment to building capability of people within the organization.  Establishes feedback and development opportunities to bridge knowledge and skill gaps, allocates challenging responsibilities for development purposes, and adopting a coaching, mentoring and facilitative approach to leadership that continuously nurturing of talents and aspirations. 

Think & act like an entrepreneur - Demonstrates the capacity to view a situation, problem, or opportunity from multiple perspectives at the same time and to develop alternative solutions to support business decisions.

Drive for results -Focuses on the achievement of business results for a team, branch, or organizational unit by overcome obstacles and barriers and deliver to the highest possible standards.  Consistently hitting goals and objectives and pushing oneself and others to achieve stretch goals.