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Dettingen/Erms, Baden-Württemberg, DE

Rochester, Michigan, US

• Global Purchasing strategy implementation and deployment for purchase materials, services and components.
• Global Standard operating procedures RFP- RFQ- RFI and ERP, comparative bidding and cost breakdown.
• CAPEX Global Policy establishment and enforcement, CAPEX standardization and cost optimization culture
• Responsible to build Global team within the different regions Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
• Negotiate and implement a Global 3PL logistic company for our transportation needs.
• Lead and build cross functional teams to work, approve and implement material substitutions.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Purchasing Global strategy implementation for plastics and faceplates abroad all the Harman divisions, Lifestyle Audio, Connected Car, connected services and Professional Audio.
• Mentoring and training the team to use cost calculation and should costs abroad the entire commodity
• Shrinking the supplier base per region to ensure all capacity is allocated/available to support business needs.
• Long term master purchase agreements based on cost transparency from supplier base, cost and tooling breakdowns, supplier machine rates agreements and sustainable growth path definition.
• Cross functional team leader to implement cost optimizations.
• Risk mitigation with critical vendors.

42579 Heiligenhaus, DE

• Negotiating global contract price for new souring and series production components, cost optimization, vendor management and supply chain analysis.
• New product vendor development responsible working with Engineering and selected vendors to reach the best possible design, cost and timing for the project, tools and components.
• Responsible to coordinate tooling engineers to meet with vendors review construction schedules and buy off components and tools before PPAP submission
• Budget development enforcing cost optimization with cross functional teams
• Responsible to lead cost competitive analysis – benchmark – on vendor cost breakdowns and negotiate should cost with strategic vendors.
• Mentor, manage and develop the team, implement procedure and system processes in compliance with IATF 16949.

London, England, GB

• Should cost model responsible for Body Unit used to negotiate and approve the tooling construction for new and existing components.
• Responsible to verify the asset existence and tooling construction robustness and quality before vendor payment approvals.
• SCIE Leader for Chrysler Mexico, having 8 tooling experts replicating the process from corporate diversified over all the units, body, interiors, chassis, electrical, engines, powertrain, restraints

Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• Stamping vendor competitive analysis and development in Alabama and Tennessee for 2500-ton needs.
• European Steel homologation with North American production to reduce transportation cost
• Should cost and cost breakdown competitive analysis for sourcing
• Implementation of material pool programs for steel coils.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• Managing the integration of South American and NAFTA suppliers back to European production to reduce the Euro impact on purchase parts
• Resourcing Assembly lines and vendors to Europe during the Automotive crisis to consolidate the production and consolidate the global cash flow
• Cost optimization leader

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• Managing the strategic sourcing for the North American plants (Mexico, USA and Canada) current and new business
• Contract Price and payment terms strategic negotiations
• Budget development, cost optimization responsible (savings) and PPV.
• Tool construction standardization and harmonizing raw materials between the different regions
• Implementation of material pool programs for steel coils, plastic resins, wires and Aluminum in order to manage the crisis period holding or minimizing the price impact during the 2008 crisis
• Chinese and South America vendor diversification

Auburn Hills, MI, US

• New Product vendor development, BOM ownership, should costing, competitive analysis and component sourcing, mainly plastics and metal components, die casting, forgings, cold headed, stamped parts, profiles.
• Series production tool costing, standardization, optimization before technical kick off.
• Responsible to deliver on time components and tools from sourcing to 90 days after series production
• Cost estimator certification, time and movements certification.
• Vendor management – evaluation – Process improvement
• Supply chain analysis, price, lead-time and quality improvement