Job Opportunities in Mexico

Function:

• Manage core operational responsibilities (i.e., material master data

maintenance, material planning, purchase order issuance and management)
for department.

• Drive internal adoption to and compliance with established procurement

policies and processes, and development of scalable business systems.

• Engagement with strategic sourcing to support supplier identification and

development efforts, analysis of business proposals, contract negotiations,
supplier database management and supplier business reviews / performance
scorecard programs.

• Assist in driving key procurement initiatives to support ongoing business

(CIP/WIN) goals and continuous improvement of systems and processes in
the procurement organization along with other projects as directed by
management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Management

• Creates, trains and supports buyers on standard work, in order to maintain

consistency in quality and quantity of work output.

• Purchase order approval
• Capacity planning and balance of department workload

• Select, train, and develop skill level of subordinate personnel.
• Lead buyers to meet target metrics.
• Management of overall team performance including annual appraisals; and
• Responsible for effective implementation of relevant Engineering Change

Orders (ECOs)
Supplier management

• Establish and ensure suppliers meet operational and project performance

objectives.

• Engages and may lead specific supplier business reviews.
• Supports development of supplier strategies to meet Company performance

and growth.

• Drive installation of business interruption mitigations and commercial

agreements with selected suppliers

• Completes key assessments for selected suppliers: cost benchmarking,

quality system, capability and capacity reviews.

• Support (or lead where required) supplier forecast and performance reviews

to support supply planning and buffer demand volatility.

• Project and production support.
• Track line down occurrences and perform root cause analysis.
• Implement corrective actions to remove supply chain risk.
• Ensure expeditious delivery of all critical materials; and drive improvement

initiatives with project or production management as applicable.
Cost and contracting

• Complete annual cost reduction plans to achieve corporate initiative plan

where required.

• Support (and may lead) implementation of business and quality agreements

with selected suppliers to secure expectations for delivery, quality, cost and
other obligations of the business relationship.

• Supports standard cost setting activities.

Inventory management

• Implement inventory management techniques (Kanban) to increase raw

material inventory turns performance.

• Manage and provide critical inputs to excess and obsolescence reviews.

Business systems

• Increase productivity of buyers by reducing/eliminating administrative tasks

with improved leverage of core business systems. Examples include:

• Schedule agreement / control cycle
• Automating purchase orders placement
• Online quoting
• Paperless record management
• Drawing management/communication to suppliers
• Development/improvement of existing reports, create new

reports/tools/automation improvements.
Compliance

• Ensures department and staff operating procedures meet established

business processes and guidelines; and

• Develops and maintains applicable department work procedures and

instructions.

Skill/Job Requirements:

• BS degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience managing a purchasing

team in high and low volume-manufacturing environments. Significant new
product introduction experience is a plus.

• Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP

systems, preferably SAP and Agile. Strong Excel and Database skills.

• Proven track record of being an effective project manager in a fast paced,

high volume manufacturing company.

• Thorough knowledge of and experience working with Kanban systems and

other lean principles.

• Detailed working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling

and forecasting.

• Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
• Proven ability to lead a team to consistently achieve stretch goals and

objectives.

• Ability to provide positive direction by encouraging peers to have a

commitment to high standards of quality and performance.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on

task, player-coach; ability to step in and perform hard tasks.

• Strong negotiation skills and experience with proven track record of savings
• ~20% travel to both domestic and international suppliers