Buyer - Front Seat Structure
About The Position
The Buyer for Seating will support Automotive Seat Module buying in North America and Globally. The core responsibilities of this position are the development, ownership, and execution of full lifecycle commodity strategies. The selected candidate will interact with many cross-functional teams such as engineering, supply chain management, supplier quality and finance. This position affords the opportunity for career development within the Purchasing organization and with other cross-functional groups. The ideal candidate will strive to continuously improve purchasing processes and more specifically module sourcing and cost management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical), Business, Finance, Economics, or closely related field from an ABET accredited university
- Minimum of 1 year of purchasing or closely related relevant experience
- Global commodity experience: participating in global sourcing activities and working in global teams
- Strong communication skills and are highly customer focused
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Strong fluency with MS Office Suite
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree; MBA or Engineering (ME/EE)
- Demonstrated experience to support more challenging decks which would reflect in more advanced Purchasing Buyer levels including JIT or MPAB experience
- Previous automotive related and/or global commodity experience
- Strong interest in the automotive industry
- Experience working with SAP
- CPSM Certification
- Familiarity with cross functional (Finance, Engineering, SCM, Capacity) processes
Responsibilities
- Support the global commodity team for the Seat JIT commodity coordinating global sourcing’s, synergy acceleration, benchmarking and commodity strategy development and execution
- Coordinate and manage key supplier open issues, lead and execute business plan, and serve as escalation point to drive issue closure
- Manage complex supply issues ranging from capacity to just in time delivery and regular release fluctuations
- Sourcing activities supporting the Seat JIT commodities including: Supplier negotiations, Sourcing on time and to target, Driving annual cost savings activities, Managing and identifying cost savings activities including Value Creation Program, Value Optimization and Gap to Should Cost
- Lead the resolution and negotiation of commercial issues
Benefits
- Opportunities for mentoring
- Learning & development
- Exposure to senior leadership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
