Project Buyer

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your Tasks

• Responsible for all purchased parts that apply to a customer project regarding costs, quality and deadlines.
• Support special project sourcing strategies that are a part of new high-dollar, critical components with long-term, preferred suppliers.
• Provides cost and quality wise favorable quotations for required materials out of the NAFTA market.
• Perform cost and value analysis in cooperation with other departments, centers and product teams.
• Investigation of potentials for substitution of material and alternate manufacturing processes.
• Provides support to production in regards to change management coordination of technical changes of purchased parts and implementation of economical improvements.
• Initiates and records cost avoidances during launch timeframe.
• Supports all members of the customer team for purchasing activities.
• Responsible for the issuance of RFQs prior to SOP as well as engineering changes during this time period. Also, initiates RFQs and engineering changes during current production.
• Consolidation of proposals and Target-Price-Setting in coordination with the other departments.
  
  

Your Profile

• 3 years experience in similar position
• Fluent English is a must
• Experience in cost breakdown analysis, project management and supply chain management is desirable
• Strong negotiation skills
  
  

We offer you a modern working environment with our Brose working world

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical, insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

• Benefits package may vary slightly per location

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