Auburn Hills
Steel Commodity Buyer
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
- 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
Your Profile
- 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.)