Series Buyer: Productivity & Cost Optimization

Faurecia; Silao (Ciudad); On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

FORVIA is seeking a Series Buyer to improve supplier performance (quality, cost, delivery) across several plants. You will support budget construction, feed and monitor detailed portfolios for VAVE, MoB and resourcing activities, and coordinate actions with stakeholders to reach targets.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of purchasing experience in automotive, a Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Business or International Trade, and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in purchasing, production, quality, logistics or sales within automotive industry.
• Nice to have: Specialization in international purchasing or supply chain

Responsibilities

• Support purchasing budget construction by sizing potential saving for ideas in the pipeline.
• Establish, feed and monitor detailed portfolio for VAVE, MoB and resourcing activities.
• Execute and coordinate actions with stakeholders to reach budget targets.
• Contribute to plant results review with operations, finance, controlling.
• Accountable for the series purchasing performance of plant(s) under his/her scope.
• Participate in ECR meetings in series and lead ECR related actions for purchasing scope.
• Execute resourcing and Make or Buy in serial life, based on operations' priorities.
• Manage transfer/resourcing/relocalization activities with suppliers in series.
• Execute risk mitigation plan defined by commodity, support administrative actions.
• Review and monitor weekly purchasing productivity plan under his/her scope, lead performance review with plant teams.
• Identify and implement all productivity actions (int/ext VAVE) in coordination with Commodity Buyers and relevant functions.
• Define and coordinate activities with commodity and SQ&D representatives to develop Supplier workshops and value-creation initiatives.
• Implement best practices in his/her scope.
• Support troubleshooting activities linked to delivery /supply chain disruption when escalation from PC&L and Quality.
• Support execution of admin actions to be done at plant level (temporary outsourcing/ resourcing).

Skills

Lean management

Production knowledge

Quality knowledge

Logistics knowledge

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

BI & analytics

Sea freight management

Savings initiative

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Business or International Trade Commerce

Job description

FORVIA is seeking a Series Buyer to improve supplier performance (quality, cost, delivery) across several plants. You will support budget construction, feed and monitor detailed portfolios for VAVE, MoB and resourcing activities, and coordinate actions with stakeholders to reach targets.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of purchasing experience in automotive, a Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Business or International Trade, and fluent English.