Procurement VAVE Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Ideation & Teardowns: Lead physical product teardowns and competitive benchmarking workshops to identify cost-out opportunities (e.g., material substitution, weight reduction, process optimization).
• Business Case Development: Calculate the financial feasibility of optimization ideas, factoring in implementation costs, modification charges (MOD), tooling updates, and payback periods.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate validation testing between Quality, Engineering, and Procurement to ensure ideas are approved without risking product performance.
• Supplier-Led Innovation: Facilitate VAVE workshops directly with key suppliers to uncover cost savings hidden in their manufacturing tiers or raw material supply chains.
• Project Management: Track a portfolio of cost-out projects from raw idea through testing, regulatory approval, and factory implementation [VAVE Project Manager].

• Manage complex, multi-team technical programs with multiple interconnected workstreams from kickoff through deployment.
• Translate product requirements into technical roadmaps, technical milestones, and engineering deliverables.
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks, technical bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they impact delivery dates.
• Own the program schedule, establishing realistic milestones, managing technical dependencies, and driving accountability across engineering squads.
• Participate in technical design reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term infrastructure goals.
• Facilitate technical trade-off decisions between engineering and product teams, balancing speed-to-market against technical debt.
• Enforce engineering excellence standards, ensuring appropriate testing, code quality, security protocols, and documentation are integrated into the program lifecycle.

Communication & Stakeholder Alignment

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Security, Compliance, and executive leadership.
• Synthesize complex technical status reports into clear, actionable executive updates, translating engineering metrics into business impacts.
• Lead post-mortems and root-cause analyses (RCA) for program failures or major deployment incidents to drive continuous process improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a hybrid technical-commercial field. Certification in Value Engineering (e.g., CVS or VMA) is highly preferred.

• Experience: 4–6 years managing technical cost-reduction or continuous improvement programs in a high-volume production sector (e.g., automotive, consumer electronics)
• Skills: Value engineering methodologies, financial acumen (ROI/TCO analysis), and strong project management capabilities.

What We Offer

Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and life outside of work.

• Competitive compensation package, including base pay, regular salary reviews, and short-term incentive opportunities
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage with eligibility starting day one
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, sick time, and bereavement for eligible employees
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match up to 5 percent and immediate vesting
• Company-paid life insurance coverage to support you and your beneficiaries
• Wellness program supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing, plus opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community
• Additional local benefits may apply depending on location or facility