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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
- Responsible for the management of assigned commodities and suppliers including annual price negotiations.
- Responsible for component and supplier sourcing strategies for assigned product group.
- Provides cost and quality wise favorable quotations for required materials out of the NAFTA market.
- Lead supplier selection for the NAFTA region
- Perform cost and value analysis in cooperation with other departments, centers and product teams.
- Cost reduction for new purchased parts and sub-assemblies by early supplier involvement and by working with the respective Customer Team Buyer(s).
- Provides support to production with coordination of technical changes of purchased parts and implemetation of economical improvements
- Initiates and records cost avoidances during launch timeframe.
- Responsible for the issuance of RFQ's prior to SOP as well as engineering changes during current production.
- Support the Customer Team Buyer(s) in the target setting process (defining the target prices as well as commodity implications)
Your Profile
- Industrial or Mechanical Engineer is a preferred.
- Purchasing experience 5-7 years on direct production material for Automotive industry (Tier or OEM) for mechanical parts (molding, Stamping, forming, welding).
- Experience with software SAP.
- Experience to understand cost break down.
- Analytical skills, communicative and well spoken.
Maria Briseño
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