Sr. Purchasing Manager - Electronic, Automotive Commodities
CyberCoders - Warren, MI
posted 6 months ago
About the position
As a Senior Purchasing Manager at our global automotive supply company, you will play a pivotal role in managing the purchasing team responsible for all commodities, from new product introduction to annual purchase and supplier maintenance. Your expertise will be crucial in establishing commodity strategies and driving both domestic and global sourcing initiatives based on cost efficiency and supplier performance. You will be recognized as the resident expert on purchasing specific commodities, particularly in the areas of brushless motors, PCBA's, controllers, and electronics. In this role, you will lead the sourcing process for supplier contracting, which includes managing the entire lifecycle from RFQ to supplier assessment, net present value analysis, negotiation, and final sourcing. You will support the New Product Introduction (NPI) process by ensuring that the best suppliers are sourced at the appropriate times, encouraging supplier involvement during the product design phase, and ensuring that pre-production parts and materials are available as required. Additionally, you will be responsible for issuing tooling and component purchase orders in a timely manner. Your responsibilities will also include improving purchasing processes, controls, and procedures that align with our operational goals. You will have the opportunity to develop future leaders by identifying mentoring opportunities, providing challenging assignments, and delegating stretch projects to accelerate their development. Collaboration with internal teams such as Engineering, Production, Program Management, and Quality will be essential to effectively manage supplier selection. You will need to possess the ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, legal documents, and engineering drawings. Furthermore, you will prepare annual headcount, expense, and purchasing price variance forecasts for business planning purposes, and review and update monthly reports to track and forecast purchasing performance against the budget. Identifying and achieving cost reduction goals will be a key focus, leveraging our corporate purchasing power in collaboration with our parent company. You will also be responsible for managing the annual and five-year budget planning requirements that align with our business plans. In addition, you will initiate quoting processes that provide real cost estimates for Sales and Marketing, ensuring a cost-competitive Bill of Materials (BOM) that serves as the baseline for initial customer quotes. You may conduct or support supplier manufacturing feasibility reviews and technical reviews, and you will lead multi-discipline projects or teams while interfacing with change project teams. Tracking, reporting, and communicating market conditions, pricing, supply trends, purchasing techniques, and new products will also be part of your responsibilities. Lastly, you will create and maintain purchase orders in our MRP database and support cross-country communication and transfer of business systems and practices for strategic purposes.
Responsibilities
- Manage purchasing team for all commodities, from new product introduction to annual purchase/supplier maintenance
- Establish commodity strategies and drive domestic and global sourcing based on cost and supplier performance
- Act as the resident expert on purchasing specific commodities for brushless motors, PCBA's, controllers, and electronics
- Lead sourcing for supplier contracting from RFQ, supplier assessment, net present value analysis, negotiating, final sourcing, and launch
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI) process, ensuring sourcing the best suppliers at appropriate times
- Encourage supplier involvement during product design phase and ensure pre-production parts and materials are available as required
- Issue tooling and component purchase orders at appropriate times
- Improve purchasing processes, controls, and procedures that support operating goals
- Develop future leaders and identify mentoring opportunities
- Collaborate with internal teams (Engineering, Production, Program Management, Quality, etc.) to manage supplier selection
- Prepare Annual Headcount, Expense, and Purchasing Price Variance Forecast for business planning purposes
- Prepare, review, and update monthly reports to track/forecast Purchasing performance to budget
- Identify and achieve cost reduction goals by collaborating with our parent company
- Establish and manage the annual and 5-year budget planning requirements
- Initiate quoting that provides real cost estimates for Sales and Marketing
- Conduct or support supplier manufacturing feasibility reviews and technical reviews
- Lead multi-discipline projects or teams and interface with change project teams
- Track, report, and communicate market conditions, pricing and supply trends, purchasing techniques, and new products
- Create and maintain purchase orders in MRP database and support cross-country communication
Requirements
- 10+ years of Supply Chain experience focused on the automotive industry
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Program Management, or Engineering discipline required
- Experience with high voltage battery products, brushless motors, PCBA's, electronic components preferred
- Demonstrated leadership of work teams and working across functions
- Exceptional presentation, written, analytical, and verbal communication skills
- High energy, teamwork, and passion for developing team members/programs
- Six Sigma or comparable improvement methodologies
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in purchasing major commodities such as Electronics, Die Castings, Sintered Metal, Stampings, Machined, Cold Headed products
Benefits
- Health, Dental, Vision Benefits
- 401k with match
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Growth and development opportunities
