What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Purchasing Manager with global automotive experience position at The Productivity Team?
Our engineering company is looking for a for a Sr Purchasing Manager, Automotive.
Our client is a global automotive manufacturer with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. This position will be located in Warren, Mi at the US Headquarters.
The Senior Purchasing Manager drives strategy for global commodity purchasing, leads commercial negotiations, participates on new and current product program launches and manages the purchasing functions for North America and Europe
Manage the purchasing and purchasing team for all commodities, from new product introduction to annual purchase/supplier maintenance
Establishing commodity strategies based on analytical data and drives domestic and global sourcing based on cost and supplier performance
Resident expert on purchasing specific commodities for brushless motors, PCBA’s, controllers and electronics
Lead sourcing for supplier contracting from RFQ, supplier assessment, net present value analysis, negotiating, final sourcing and launch
Support the New Product Introduction (NPI) process by ensuring the sourcing the best suppliers at the appropriate time, the active encouragement of supplier involvement during the product design phase, ensuring pre-production parts and materials are available as required, ensuring that tooling and component purchase orders are issued at the appropriate time
Improve purchasing processes, controls and procedures that support IATF and company operating goals
Develop future leaders by identifying mentoring opportunities, providing challenging assignments, and delegating stretch projects to accelerate development and hire additional staff as the organization grows
Collaborate with internal teams (Engineering, Production, Program Management, Quality, etc.)
to manage supplier selection and evaluation and drive decisions in alignment with Company objectives
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, legal documents and engineering drawings
Prepare Annual Headcount, Expense and Purchasing Price Variance Forecast for business planning purposes
Prepare, review and update monthly reports to track and forecast Purchasing performance to budget, and provide clear direction and actions to ensure targets are met
Identifying and achieving cost reduction goals by collaborating with our parent company to leverage corporate purchasing power
Establishing and submitting for approval and managing the annual and five-year budget planning requirements that link to the organization’s annual and five-year business plan
Initiates quoting that provides real cost estimates for Sales and Marketing, including a cost competitive BOM that will be the baseline for initial quoting to customers
Conducts or supports supplier manufacturing feasibility reviews and supplier kick-off meetings
May also conduct and support supplier technical reviews
Leads multi-discipline projects or teams and interfaces with change project teams
Tracks, reports and communicates market conditions, pricing and supply trends, purchasing techniques and new products
Creates and maintains PO’s in MRP database
Supporting cross country (US and China) communication and transfer of business systems and practices for strategic purposes
