Job Description:
Position Summary:
Technical leadership and execution for assigned suppliers or commodity groups. Duties include, but are not limited to: supplier readiness and execution, supply base qualification and development, material cost improvement and execution, performance tracking and reporting.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage supplier readiness and APQP for high-risk suppliers and / or components
- Lead corporate supplier development activity for Top Focus Suppliers
- Provide technical assistance and management of critical supply situations – current production resolution
- Drive supplier Material Cost Reduction (MCR) initiatives
- Conduct focused supplier training as part of problematic supplier approach with potential third-party involvement
- Identify, assess, and qualify new regional or technical sources
- Support supplier consolidation and standardization
- Qualify and advise purchasing and the program team in source selection
- Support R & D and Advanced purchasing supplier commodity strategy
- Provide support to CS plant during cases of supplier complaint escalation
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description
- Support all assigned new launch activities with supplier APQP deliverables
Education and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant technical field required.
- Minimum 5-year work experience in a technical area (ie: Stamping, Electronics, Injection Molding, Die Casting, Machining, Tube Forming, Plating)
- Comprehensive knowledge of supplier development, quality, and program management procedures
- Prior experience in automotive supplier development (global focus and international experience a plus)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications
- Experience leading successful negotiations
- Must have initiative, assertiveness and drive and may lead cross functional teams
- Superior problem-solving skills
- Experience working effectively as part of a cross functional team
- Must be an excellent written and verbal communicator, including English
- Must possess strong leadership skills with a track record of improved performance
- Communicates difficult concepts within and outside the organization employing negotiation skills to achieve desired results
- Must be a strategic thinker
- Must possess a valid passport with the ability to travel freely in North America, South America, European, and Asian regions
- Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary
Work Environment/Work Conditions:
- Hybrid work
- Professional Office Environment
- Must wear proper personal protection equipment while on manufacturing floor
- Travel to manufacturing facilities or customer locations when required
- Equipment used requires proper training on the potential for and avoidance of injury
Position Type:
Regular
Additional Locations:
Additional Information:
Remote Status:
Hybrid