DirecciónCompany Overview
Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Our diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks #186 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com, or follow us on Twitter @LearCorporation
Position Overview
The Program Buyer is in charge of managing the sourcing activities for the relevant current and new programs.
This position requires a strong interface with our Business Units and manufacturing plants located all across Europe (in Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, South Africa and Russia) together with all commodity buyers
Key tasks
- Support sourcing of externally sourced commodities by coordinating information flow between program team and commodity purchasing and creating a sourcing calendar from official program program.
- Control Costed bom for related programs
- Organise and lead weekly RFQ/ECN meetings with commodity purchasing.
- Achieve Material Cost Reduction in working together with commodity buyer to define technical optimisation and commercial leverage
- Support Advanced RFQ Phase with Sales by sending RFQ to supply base and generate costed BOM
- Purchase order administration and maintenance
- Support operational functions in solving supplier quality and logistic issues
Key Requirements:
- Business degree or combined engineering and business degree (or equivalent)
- Ideally Technical background and/ or purchasing experience (+2 years)
- Excellent communication skills
- Teamoriented and able to work independently
- Proficiency in English, a second foreign language is preferable
- Very good MS Office Knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project and Access)
