The Senior Buyer for Seating will support Automotive Seat Module buying in North America and Globally, as well as armrest and headrests with an annual value of business of ~$500M. The core responsibilities of this position are the development, ownership, and execution of full lifecycle commodity strategies which include but are not limited to: • Serve as the global commodity team lead for the seat armrest and headrest commodities coordinating global sourcing's, synergy acceleration, benchmarking and commodity strategy development and execution • Coordinate and manage key supplier open issues, lead and execute business plan, and serve as escalation point to drive issue closure • Manage complex supply issues ranging from capacity to just in time delivery and regular release fluctuations • Sourcing activities supporting the Seat Headrest and Armrest commodities including • Supplier negotiations • Sourcing on time and to target • Driving annual cost savings activities • Managing and identifying cost savings activities including Monozukuri, Value Optimization and Gap to Should Cost • Lead the resolution and negotiation of commercial issues The selected candidate will interact with many cross-functional teams such as engineering, supply chain management, supplier quality and finance. This position affords the opportunity for career development within the Purchasing organization and with other cross-functional groups. The ideal candidate will strive to continuously improve purchasing processes and more specifically module sourcing and cost management. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical), Business, Finance, Economics, or closely related field from an ABET accredited university • Minimum of 8 years of purchasing or closely related relevant experience • Global commodity experience: participating in global sourcing activities and working in global teams • Strong communication skills and are highly customer focused • Ability to lead cross-functional teams • Strong fluency with MS Office Suite Preferred Qualifications: • Master's degree; MBA or Engineering (ME/EE) • Demonstrated experience to support more challenging decks which would reflect in more advanced Purchasing Buyer levels including JIT or MPAB experience • Previous automotive related and/or global commodity experience • Strong interest in the automotive industry • Experience working with PentaSAP • CPSM Certification • International working experience • Familiarity with cross functional (Finance, Engineering, SCM, Capacity) processes