Auburn Hills
Project Buyer - Seat
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.
Your Tasks
- Hybrid schedule in Auburn Hills, Michigan
- Support special project sourcing strategies for new, high-dollar, critical components with long-term preferred suppliers.
- Obtain cost- and quality-competitive quotations for required materials from the North American market.
- Perform cost and value analyses in cooperation with other departments, centers, and product teams
- Investigate opportunities for material substitution and alternative manufacturing processes to optimize costs.
- Support production through change management coordination, including technical changes to purchased parts and implementation of economical improvements.
- Identify, initiate, and document cost avoidance opportunities during the project launch phase.
- Support customer team members with purchasing activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Issue Requests for Quotation (RFQs) prior to Start of Production (SOP), including engineering changes during launch and current production.
- Consolidate supplier proposals and establish target pricing in coordination with cross-functional departments.
- Participate in supplier selection activities within North America in collaboration with Commodity Buyers.
Your Profile
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Purchasing, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain management, or project buying.
- Experience with cost breakdown analysis, cost optimization, and Bill of Materials (BOM).
- Knowledge of supply chain management principles, including value stream management, Just-in-Time (JIT), Just-in-Sequence (JIS), and Kanban.
- Understanding of international movement of goods, import/export processes, and applicable taxes.
- Strong negotiation, presentation, and project management skills.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience working with SAP.
- Business fluency in English.