Purchasing Assistant Manager

Confidential; Lincoln (AL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Regional Bonus

Relocation assistance

401K Plan with company match

Education Reimbursement

Wellbeing Program

Job summary

Honda is seeking a Site Delivery Frame Local Group Leader to coordinate daily activities with buyers and the technical lead team, ensuring KPIs while mitigating downtime and cost risks in our North American supply base.

The role implements business plan themes, oversees budgets, and leads critical projects and supplier improvements, while mentoring 5–10 buyers on the group level and collaborating across HDMA Frame sites.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in SCM, Data Analytics, or Business Management.
• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in supply chain roles.
• Ability to interpret leadership direction and communicate across levels.
• Ability to build relationships across cultures and drive improvements.
• Experience developing benchmarks and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily activities with buyers and technical leads to meet KPIs.
• Lead execution of business plan themes, budget, and KPI targets.
• Lead/maintain critical projects and supplier initiatives; escalate when needed.
• Benchmark across sites to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Develop associates and mentor team members; drive system enhancements.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Process Improvement

Project Management

Cost Reduction

Data Analysis

Cross-cultural Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, Business Management

Job description

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a HondaHonda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

The SCM Site Delivery Frame Local Group Leader is responsible for coordinating daily activities with his/her respective buyers and technical lead support (EX1 – EX4 / Career Levels L3 – L5) to ensure Key Performance Indicators are met by mitigating risk of Downtime, GDP, and Cost from our North American supply base.

The Group Leader is also responsible for implementing business plan themes/strategies developed by SC Delivery Department leadership and SCM Business Unit leadership as well as site Delivery budgets.

Key Accountabilities

• Support Site Delivery Frame Unit Leaders/buyers in troubleshooting supplier and/or site-specific issues.
• In supporting Local Unit Leader/Regional Unit Leader, lead the execution of Business Plan Themes/Strategies, Budget, Key Performance Indicators.
• Lead/maintain critical projects, Business Plan Themes, and other initiatives, present/escalate when necessary.
• Benchmark with other HDMA Frame Sites to identify and apply cost saving opportunities.
• Engage associates within specific site or other HDMA Frame sites to develop & implement system enhancements (Commonization, OWBW, etc) and supplier improvement items.
• Lead associate development activities (train, advise, mentor) of assigned buyers.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum Educational Qualifications: Bachelors’ degree in Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, Business Management
• Minimum Experience: 8+ years relevant experience
• Other Job‑Specific Skills: Provides necessary direction, support, and identifies/develops training for team members to perform their responsibilities Accurately interprets direction from leadership; clearly communicates and conveys technical, business or policy information appropriately across multiple levels within a unit or group of operation Takes action to build effective working relationships between individuals from different cultures, backgrounds, viewpoints & experiences Develops and uses benchmarks and performance measures to track progress or identify gaps Continuously seeks opportunities to improve characteristics, conditions, processes, or products and directs improvement activity; has high sensitivity for loss or abnormal conditions Understands the business, processes and technology employed across Honda's operational units; applies expertise to generate themes to improve characteristics Develops solutions to highly complex, systemic problems that impact or involve multiple disciplines, departments, or products; takes initiative to develop and implement improvement themes that permanently countermeasure systemic root causes Models' own behavior according to Honda Philosophy and can teach / mentor others to ensure company values are at forefront for all actions and decisionseffectively delegates responsibilities while providing support and structure Creates a positive work environment that encourages high performance and pursuit of goals.

Job Dimensions

• No. of Direct Reports: 5 – 10 buyers
• No. of Indirect Reports: 5 - 10 buyers on other Group Leader’s team (if applicable)

Financial Dimensions

• Negotiate compensation requests and design changes between supplier and Honda to mitigate financial risk to Honda while ensuring the timely implementation of changepoint. Support the control of overtime and freight, and design change budgets to meet Ki targets.

Decisions Expected

• Provide tactical and/or strategic guidance to buyers & leadership related to supplier issues, business plan items, and/or internal department issues
• Strategic direction related to Business Plan and One Way Best Way items
• Support Buyer performance ratings, succession planning, etc…through collaboration w/ Local Unit Leader
• Site Delivery Frame local policies and procedures related to SEQDCM
• Support Monthly/Ki Key Performance Indicator targets related to operations and budget

Working Conditions

Must be able to work overtime approximately 5-10 hours per week.

Work in a fast-paced environment with demanding and critical deadlines.

Traveling between Sites, Business Units, and/or suppliers.

Must be able to work weekends or into 2nd shift hours to support critical business needs (internal and/or external).

What differentiates Honda and makes us an employer of choice?

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)
• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued learning
• Training and Development Programs
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.