Your tasks
- Management of purchasing activities for dedicated customer projects along the project lifetime including a liability for the project's material cost, quality and timing
- Conduction of sourcing process within dedicate customer projects in alignment with commodity strategies
- Serial support of customer projects along the whole product lifetime (SOP until EOP)
- Supporting the target-costing process for customer projects during acquisition phase
- Creation and alignment of procurement concept
- Sourcing of project specific parts
- Change management during project and series phase
- Organization and execution of progress reviews with suppliers to ensure the internal production start
- Continuous identification and implementation of cost reduction measures (VA/VE)
- Preparation and conduction of negotiations with suppliers
- Preparation and presentation of sourcing decisions in the sourcing board
- Coordination of technical meetings (feasibility study / concepts / etc.) with suppliers, including the necessary technical functions (Quality / Design / Tool Technology)
Your Profile
- Bachelor degree (technical or commercial)
- At least 2-3 years experience in strategic and/or operational procurement preferably within automotive industry
- Presentation and communication skills
- Negotiation expertise / Analytical mindset (Ability to analyze complex cost breakdowns to secure competitive pricing)
- Ability to assess risks and opportunities in supplier cost breakdowns
- Sharp negotiation tactics
- Ability to balance cost savings with strategic relationships
- Good technical understanding
- Experience in handling complex programs from procurement perspective from concept through launch and during serial production
- Ability to collaborate cross functional in a project team
Brose Sitech offers stable employment and interesting, challenging work, contact with new technologies, individual opportunities for professional development, as well as additional financial and non-financial benefits.
