Purchasing Manager (Seating)

Novi, Michigan

Employer: Yanfeng Automotive
Industry: Procurement & Supplier Management
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Main responsibilities:
  • Control sourcing on time at or below cost targets
  • Investigate and validate new potential suppliers in North America Region to support YFS operations
  • Identification and analysis of potential new suppliers and lead the cost savings opportunities.
  • Ensure flawless SDT launches per PLUS and customertiming / deliverables
  • Maintain direct production materials / components to ensure accuracy
  • Strive to achieve cost savings goals and financial commitments per program/corporate targets
  • Understand and support execution of supplier Commodity Strategies
  • Support Commodity Managers in developing and implementing sub commodity strategies (SMPE)
  • Initiate and lead cross functional Make vs. Buy decisions
  • Supplier Management activities: RFQ (Request for Quote), change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolution, etc.
  • Coordination of commodity specific cost savings and economic variances with senior management for forecast planning

Qualifications:
  • 4 years degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Business Administration with a Master Degree desired
  • Min. 5 years within automotive or related industry

Technical:
  • Automotive manufacturing, engineering, procurement, Supply Chain Management(SCM) and/or costing
  • Problem solving to analyze and identify waste in supplier process to drive cost reductions and process improvements

Contract Administration:
  • Ability to analyze and execute contracts
  • Understand key contract provisions andterms and conditions
  • Understand Statement of Work requirements

Financial:
  • Understand benchmark requirements
  • Identify and understand key cost drivers
  • Prepare and present cost analysis to support decision making process
  • Work to understand Total Cost impacts to the business to drive proper sourcing decisions

Negotiations:
  • Ability to gather information, analyze data, prepare for and/or lead negotiations to ensure Yanfeng Automotive seatings financial, quality, delivery, cost savings and other corporate goals are met
  • Understand supplier performance, process, footprint strategiesin relation to Yanfeng Automotive seatings' operations in order to provide Best Cost sourcing
  • Understand customer commercial and footprint strategies in order to provide Best Cost sourcing

Other:
  • Support annual Business Reviewprocess with strategic suppliers to ensure supplier specific roadmaps are met
  • Support Commodity Teams in driving improvements in the following areas in order to meet or exceed plannedgoals: forecasted savings, continuous improvement, economics mitigation, supplier quality performance, supplier rationalization, sub commodity strategies, LCC sourcing content, payment terms, supplierT&Cs, and other strategic objectives
  • Support Material Best Business Practices (MBBP) to implement strategies and cost savings
  • Develop sub commodity strategies through SMPE initiatives
  • Support on site Supplier Readiness Reviews (SRR) and Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR)
  • Support compliance with BOS, PLUS, POS and SOX procedures
  • Support advanced and operational Purchasing activities within a Commodity organization starting from phase 0-5 and over production lifetime

People Management:
  • Interact effectively with cross functional team - purchasing, program management, operations facilities, quality, engineering, costing, finance
  • Lead and deliver results to support cross functional goals - launch on time, below cost targets, internal returnrates, etc
Created: 2024-06-05
Reference: 20233251
Country: United States
State: Michigan
City: Novi

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