A bit about us
Trek is an awesome place to work, with amazing benefits for all employees. We build only products we love, provide incredible hospitality to our customers, and change the world by getting more people on bikes. When you’re on our team, you’re taken care of, encouraged to learn and grow, and given lots of opportunities to do so. Give us your best, and we’ll give it right back. Sound pretty sweet? Then come join us!
Job Description
Reports to the Bike Sourcing Manager.
Position Summary
Bike Sourcing is responsible for delivering the most awesome bikes for the company. The candidate will be responsible for Spec Communication with bike factories, On Time production of all models and competitive costing for our global bikes. Additionally, Bike Sourcing is responsible for frame sets that ship to our US and Germany factories as well as Service / Warranty frames. And finally, the energetic candidate will provide awesome service to internal and external customers.
Responsibilities:
- Manage Specification (Spec) through lifecycle of the bike or frame set on time.
- Spec Review Accurately - No errors / all problems solved before release.
- Create and implement Engineering Change Orders according to timelines.
- Deliver 90% of ALL bikes on time.
- Manage Long Lead Time parts with bike factories to ensure startup on time.
- Negotiate bike and frame pricing to meet or exceed targets.
- Knows costing inside out, driven to remove all extra costs, great negotiation, driven to exceed expectations.
- Sets aggressive goals / targets.
- High sense of urgency to meet or exceed objectives.
- Shares best practices with team. Promotes team environment.
- Provides unreasonable hospitality to internal and external customers.
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree and a passion for bicycles a must!
- Experience with cross functional international group.
- Advanced systems skills and working knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel.
- Must have excellent presentation and communication skills
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!