Steel Commodity Buyer

Brose•Auburn Hills, MI

21h

About The Position

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Business or Engineering from a four-year college or university
3 - 5 years experience
Analytical skills: Index trends & adjustments, cost analysis, demand analysis, etc.
Data management: attention to details and proficiency in SAP & Excel
Negotiation techniques
Supplier relationship & stakeholder management
Project management / Risk management
Leadership & assertive communication
Basic steel grades & properties, stamping process and foreign trade concepts (Incoterms, HTS, tariffs, etc.)

Responsibilities

Negotiate and source steel for Brose plants and Brose stampers in USA & CAN.
Manage commercial relationship with Steel partners in USA & CAN.
Set-up sourcing file, analyze & negotiate quotes and present final proposal to DM.
Finalize agreements, set-up award files and sign LOAs with USA & CAN SSC’s.
Update and validate steel prices in line with supplier index agreements.
Set-up steel pricing sheets and distribute to all stampers & commodity buyers.
Set-up & update steel shipping files to calculate quarterly rebates from all SSCs.
Get Credit Notes from SSCs and provide rebate allocation to AM/EK controlling.
Maintain & keep all steel records updated as new PNs are added to NA steel pool.
Support Project buyers providing steel prices for target setting process.
Get steel specs & volumes from project buyers to support new projects ramp-up.
Onboard new steel suppliers according to AM strategy & processes (e.g. GTCPs).
Support steel shortages at Brose plants and stampers to avoid Customer impact.
Provide SC & commodity buyers scrap indexes for their scrap recovery calculation.
Perform detailed cost break-down analysis to identify cost reduction opportunities.
Identify cost reduction projects and support execution of related RACE measures.
Monitor index trends, Market intelligence and forward-looking outlooks from commodity experts.
Support Annual Raw Material premise and quarterly forecast updates.