Procurement Specialist

Kia Corp.; Georgia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kia Georgia is seeking an experienced procurement professional to coordinate purchasing activities with automotive parts suppliers, ensuring cost, development, quality, delivery, and safety targets are met. The role involves selecting and managing a supplier base, issuing RFQs for multi-year production quantities, negotiating long-term agreements, and leading annual cost-reduction initiatives.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 2–5 years of supply chain experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations Management or related field with 2–5 years of supply chain experience.
• Experience with OEM or parts supplier exposure preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical and organizational skills.
• Proficient with SAP and Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate purchasing activities between Kia Georgia and suppliers to optimize cost, development, quality, delivery, and safety.
• Select, develop and manage supplier base, prepare RFQs, negotiate long-term agreements, and drive cost reductions.
• Analyze supplier development timelines, verify tooling, packaging, and start-up milestones.
• Monitor supplier performance metrics and drive corrective actions and improvements.
• Prepare materials and reports for internal meetings.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Independent judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations Management or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Access

SAP

Job description

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Coordinate all purchasing related activities between Kia Georgia and automotive parts suppliers. Meet with and direct suppliers on a regular basis in the areas of Cost, Development, Quality, Delivery, Management, and Safety to determine and optimize progress and discuss current & future activities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Select, develop and manage supply base for production parts, components and systems by: preparing RFQ's for multi-year full production quantities (as required), negotiating long term agreements, maintaining competitive pricing and leading yearly cost reduction activities.
• Analyze supplier timelines for new part development: Verify supplier tooling, packaging, dimensional, shipping, testing, etc. milestones and provide notification of gaps/errors.
• Asset Management: Ensure that all assets are tagged, locations are validated, records of all tooling are maintained and updated, and amortization is confirmed.
• ISIR Submission: Receive and Approve before parts are released for launch/ mass production.
• Manage supply base in all key areas to gain efficiencies and Understand Key Supplier Performance Metrics to implement and confirm improvement plans Supplier Documentation (ISIRs, 4Ms, other legal contracts).
• Achieve Supplier Quality Targets by managing key supplier performance indexes and Manage supplier troubleshooting and analyze non-conforming parts and generate corrective actions.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of all EOs: Maintain and update system(s) with EO data. Ensure that EOs are implemented per schedule.
• Process improvements, mentoring and training, CFT support, etc.
• Material preparation for meetings and other reports.

The above typical duties are characteristic of this job and demonstrate a level of difficulty and are not intended to list or limit the duties that may be required or assigned to a team member in this classification.

Qualifications & Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations Management or related field along with two (2) to five (5) years of progressive supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment preferably within the automotive industry, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• OEM or parts components supplier experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical and organizational skills a must.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion in both exercising company decisions and carrying out essential job duties that affect efficient business operations and its objectives, policies, practices, and conditions.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to those who are able to perform the essential duties of the job.

Specialized Skills and Knowledge Required

• Experience using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access.
• Experience with SAP system preferred.
• Knowledge of supply chain and accounting processes and practices