Purchasing Assistant Manager

Honda Dev. and Mfg. of Am.,LLC•Marysville, OH

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The SCM Site Delivery Frame Local Group Leader is responsible for coordinating daily activities with his/her respective buyers and technical lead support (EX1 – EX4 / Career Levels L3 – L5) to ensure Key Performance Indicators are met by mitigating risk of Downtime, GDP, and Cost from our North American supply base. The Group Leader is also responsible for implementing business plan themes/strategies developed by SC Delivery Department leadership and SCM Business Unit leadership as well as site Delivery budgets.

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree in Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, Business Management
8+ years relevant experience
Provides necessary direction, support, and identifies/develops training for team members to perform their responsibilities
Accurately interprets direction from leadership; clearly communicates and conveys technical, business or policy information appropriately across multiple levels within a unit or group of operation
Motivates team members to exceed expectations
Takes action to build effective working relationships between individuals from different cultures, backgrounds, viewpoints & experiences
Develops and uses benchmarks and performance measures to track progress or identify gaps
Drives the team to set challenging goals and takes pro-active measures to ensure targets and goals are achieved
Continuously seeks opportunities to improve characteristics, conditions, processes, or products and directs improvement activity; has high sensitivity for loss or abnormal conditions
Maximizes outcomes required to meet overall goal by minimizing time and resources
Understands the business, processes and technology employed across Honda's operational units; applies expertise to generate themes to improve characteristics
Develops solutions to highly complex, systemic problems that impact or involve multiple disciplines, departments, or products; takes initiative to develop and implement improvement themes that permanently countermeasure systemic root causes
Models' own behavior according to Honda Philosophy and can teach / mentor others to ensure company values are at forefront for all actions and decisions
Effectively delegates responsibilities while providing support and structure
Creates a positive work environment that encourages high performance and pursuit of goal

Responsibilities

Support Site Delivery Frame Unit Leaders/buyers in troubleshooting supplier and/or site-specific issues
In supporting Local Unit Leader/Regional Unit Leader, lead the execution of Business Plan Themes/Strategies, Budget, Key Performance Indicators
Lead/maintain critical projects, Business Plan Themes, and other initiatives, present/escalate when necessary
Benchmark with other HDMA Frame Sites to identify and apply cost saving opportunities
Engage associates w/in specific site or other HDMA Frame sites to develop & implement system enhancements (Commonization, OWBW, etc) and supplier improvement items
Lead associate development activities (train, advise, mentor) of assigned buyers
Provide tactical and/or strategic guidance to buyers & leadership related to supplier issues, business plan items, and/or internal department issues
Provide strategic direction related to Business Plan and One Way Best Way items
Support Buyer performance ratings, succession planning, etc…through collaboration w/ Local Unit Leader
Support Site Delivery Frame local policies and procedures related to SEQDCM
Support Monthly/Ki Key Performance Indicator targets related to operations and budget
Negotiate compensation requests and design changes between supplier and Honda to mitigate financial risk to Honda while ensuring the timely implementation of changepoint.
Support the control of overtime and freight, and design change budgets to meet Ki targets.