Auburn Hills
Vice President Purchasing & Supplier Quality North America
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
- Strategic Leadership: Define and implement the North American purchasing strategy aligned with global commodity and business objectives. Drive long-term value creation through cost optimization, supplier innovation, and risk mitigation
- Organizational Leadership & Talent Development: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing purchasing organization. Design organizational structure, workforce planning, and succession strategies
- Sourcing & Supplier Strategy: Oversee all regional sourcing activities (direct and indirect) ensuring alignment with global commodity strategies. Establish and maintain a competitive, resilient, and sustainable supply base.
- Supplier Performance & Quality: Ensure suppliers meet expectations in quality, delivery, cost, innovation, and financial stability. Strengthening supplier development and risk management frameworks
- Commercial & Contract Governance: Oversee and support negotiations for high-value and strategic contracts. Ensure all supplier agreements meet legal, compliance, and corporate governance standards
- Financial Management: Own regional purchasing budgets and deliver against cost-saving and value-improvement targets.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with regional plants, business divisions, and global purchasing leadership. Act as key interface between North America and global headquarters.
- Operational Excellence & Process Governance: Ensure adherence to global purchasing processes, systems, and policies. Drive continuous improvement and digitalization of purchasing processes (e.g., SAP, analytics tools)
- Innovation & Sustainability: Promote supplier-driven innovation and early supplier involvement. Support sustainability, ESG, and responsible sourcing initiatives.
- Risk Management: Lead proactive supply chain risk identification and mitigation strategies. Ensure business continuity planning across critical suppliers and commodities.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university and a graduate degree desired.
- More than 10 years experience in the automotive industry
- Personal / social competencies: Communication skills, decision making ability, power of conviction, ability to work under pressure, positive attitude to new experiences and change
- Methodical competencies: Presentation skills, project management skills, facilitation skills
- General understand and awareness of functional competencies (e.g. legal aspects of purchasing, concept of material group, supply chain management) is required
- IT skills: MS Office, SAP
- Leadership skills
- Fluent written and spoken English
