Senior Purchasing Director

2 days ago


Warren, Michigan, United States Linked Professional Services Full time
Job Title: Senior Purchasing Manager

The Senior Purchasing Manager plays a pivotal role in driving strategic commodity purchasing, leading commercial negotiations, and overseeing purchasing functions for North America and Europe at Linked Professional Services.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute commodity strategies based on data-driven insights, driving domestic and global sourcing to optimize cost and supplier performance.
  • Establish and maintain expertise in purchasing specific commodities, including brushless motors, PCBA's, controllers, and electronics.
  • Lead the sourcing process for supplier contracting, from RFQ to final sourcing and launch, ensuring the best suppliers are selected at the right time.
  • Support the New Product Introduction (NPI) process by sourcing the best suppliers, encouraging supplier involvement during product design, and ensuring pre-production parts and materials are available as required.
  • Improve purchasing processes, controls, and procedures to support IATF and SLPT operating goals, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
  • Develop future leaders by identifying mentoring opportunities, providing challenging assignments, and delegating stretch projects to accelerate development and hire additional staff as the organization grows.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to manage supplier selection and evaluation, driving decisions in alignment with Company objectives.
  • Prepare and review monthly reports to track and forecast Purchasing performance to budget, providing clear direction and actions to ensure targets are met.
  • Identify and achieve cost reduction goals by collaborating with the parent company to leverage corporate purchasing power.
  • Establish and submit for approval the annual and five-year budget planning requirements that link to the organization's annual and five-year business plan.
  • Initiate quoting that provides real cost estimates for Sales and Marketing, including a cost-competitive BOM that serves as the baseline for initial quoting to SLPT customers.
  • Conduct or support supplier manufacturing feasibility reviews and supplier kick-off meetings, as well as supplier technical reviews.
  • Lead multi-discipline projects or teams and interface with change project teams.
  • Track, report, and communicate market conditions, pricing, and supply trends, purchasing techniques, and new products.
  • Create and maintain PO's in the MRP database.
  • Support cross-country (US and China) communication and transfer of business systems and practices for strategic purposes.
Requirements:
  • At least 10 years of Supply Chain experience focused in the automotive industry.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Program Management, or Engineering discipline required.
  • Six Sigma or comparable improvement methodologies.
  • Experience with high-voltage battery products, brushless motors, PCBA's, and electronic components preferred.
  • Experience with purchasing major commodities, including Electronics, Die Castings, Sintered Metal, Stampings, Machined, and Cold Headed products.
  • Essential negotiation and leadership skills, proactive team player, sense of responsibility, drive for results, self-motivated, and goal-oriented attitude.
  • Demonstrated leadership of work teams and working across functions.
  • Exceptional presentation, written, analytical, and verbal communication skills.
  • High energy, teamwork, and passion for developing team members.


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