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Job Description for Requisition
Job Description for Requisition
- Job Title: Senior Buyer
- Type of Contract: Long-term At-will
- Scope: Modules North America
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives, ensuring supplier competitiveness, risk mitigation, sustainability requirements, and supply base optimization.
- Lead sourcing activities from strategy through supplier nomination, including RFQ management, quotation analysis, commercial negotiations, supplier selection, and contract execution.
- Manage CapEx and production-related procurement activities across programs and manufacturing locations, ensuring alignment with project timing, budget, and operational requirements.
- Drive cost competitiveness through target pricing, should-cost analysis, benchmarking, VA/VE initiatives, lifecycle cost evaluations, and formal savings realization.
- Support program lifecycle activities from acquisition through launch and serial production, including supplier readiness, engineering changes, tooling modifications, resourcing activities, and supply continuity.
- Develop and manage supplier relationships while monitoring supplier performance against quality, cost, delivery, and sustainability objectives, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives as needed.
- Define and maintain QCD targets in collaboration with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Finance to support program and business objectives.
- Maintain accurate purchasing, sourcing, supplier, and contract data within SAP and other purchasing systems to support procurement execution, reporting, and compliance requirements.
- Serve as the primary purchasing interface between suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring alignment, effective communication, issue resolution, and achievement of program milestones.
- Ensure compliance with purchasing procedures, contractual obligations, quality standards, environmental requirements, ethical business practices, and EHS policies.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, or a related field preferred.
- Professional / Technical Training: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
- Professional / Technical Training: SAP experience preferred.
- Professional / Technical Training: Strong negotiation, contract management, and supplier relationship management skills.
- Professional / Technical Training: Strong analytical, financial, and presentation skills.
- Professional / Technical Training: Technical understanding of manufacturing processes, capital equipment, tooling, and production systems; experience with cost analysis, benchmarking, and should-cost methodologies preferred.
- Related Experience / Specialized Knowledge: Minimum 5 years of purchasing experience, preferably within automotive, manufacturing, or industrial environments.
- Related Experience / Specialized Knowledge: Experience managing BOM procurement, production purchasing, sourcing activities, supplier negotiations, product launches, engineering changes, and supplier performance management.
- Related Experience / Specialized Knowledge: Knowledge of customer-specific requirements, quality standards, and supply chain fundamentals.
- Additional Skills: Results-driven with strong project management, organizational, planning, communication, presentation, stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, strategic sourcing, cost analysis, supplier development, and cross-functional influencing capabilities.
- This role offers the opportunity to lead strategic purchasing activities across programs and manufacturing locations while partnering closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and suppliers.
- The position provides exposure to sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, cost optimization, product launches, and continuous improvement initiatives in a dynamic manufacturing environment.