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Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Manage 3 team members responsible for Packaging, Material Handling Equipment, Facility Services, and MRO.Provide direction and support to team for initiatives critical to the business.Ensure strategic execution of Purchasing activities. Support complex negotiations with suppliers.Support achievement of cost reduction and supplier performance KPI's.Stakeholder relationship management, both internal and external.

Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Innovatively and Strategically lead Purchasing management of commodities JIT/Complete Seat CAPEX + Material Handling Equipment (MHE). Additionally, actively involved to provide team-centric leadership support of department initiatives.Maintain timely and accurate knowledge of assigned categories, accurate up-to-date cost records and analysis of trends. Develop and implement category strategies, participate and lead cross functional local teams, provide a comprehensive summary of categories, supply base, cost drivers, market trends, strategic actions, and initiatives.Create and implement cost reduction strategies, including negotiation of all relevant commercial terms, ensuring lowest total cost, sourcing new business per the constantly evolving commodity strategy. Identify potential commodity and/or supplier opportunity areas (e.g., standardization, supplier consolidation, new technologies, etc.), communicate potential opportunities internally and initiate activities to align appropriate resources to pursue opportunity areas.Management + Development of supply base. Challenge existing suppliers for optimal performance to main good standing. Lead and support development of new suppliers into company network to optimize category leverage.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Indirect Purchasing Manager for North America Purchasing Team.Lead, grow team members in USA and Mexico.Responsible for change in team approach, progressing from strictly tactical to balanced strategic/tactical sourcing to mostly strategic to exceed team assessed savings targets. Drive Purchasing team expertise on scope of work definition relating to facility requirements, unifying standards and strategy creation to achieve and ensure goal ‘on time under budget’ metrics. Define and effectively communicate supplier requirements and core team expectations to align with corporate directives.Challenging of "status quo" with regards to supply base and sourcing new business.Lead team adherence to IATF / CSOX audit compliance.Spearhead and align Cross-functional teams in the development of new opportunities.Manage complex, time sensitive Purchasing activities.

Winterthur, Zürich, Ch

Indirect Purchasing Team Manager as part of North American Indirect Purchasing team. Professional development of team members.Establish team metrics in responsible commodities with focus on strategic and tactical sourcing, exceeding savings targets.Initiated new cross-functional alignment for quoting process requiring creation of Engineering Specification for all new equipment purchasing requests, unifying Engineering standards and established domestic and global strategy via recurring Purchasing + Purchasing/Engineering team meetings to achieve and ensure goal ‘on time under budget’ metrics. Enhanced Purchasing equipment contract template to strengthen commercial protection for company.Define supplier requirements and core team expectations to align with corporate directives and program deliverables. Initiate and lead implementation of new quoting process to support IATF / SOX audit compliance.Spearhead Global / Cross-functional teams in the development of opportunities and suppliers, defining risk and assessing capital benefits. Lead and support team on complex projects.Selected to be part of and successfully graduated from prestigious company International Leadership Program.

Winterthur, Zürich, Ch

•Responsible for key commodities within Direct (Raw Material) and Indirect Purchasing (CSM: Capital, Services and MRO)• Above opportunities allowed for exposure to all areas of Purchasing.

Grugliasco, Torino, It

• Lead Buyer for all components for (2) of largest programs at time. • Kept plants running and avoiding line down situations by also serving in role as expediter. • Issued high volume of purchase orders to wide-ranging supply base and negotiate pricing on a daily basis.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

•Daily interface with TRW supply base to identify and negotiate lowest cost.•Negotiate pricing for several Electronics Commodity, including printed circuit boards, resistors, diodes, micros...•Support 3 plants on a daily basis.•Daily interface with Automotive System Engineers.•Extensive SAP experience. •Manage multiple purchasing processes to ensure audit compliance.•Maintain Engineering Bill of Material costing for various OEM and associated automotive applications.