The senior program purchasing specialist is to work with local site operations and other business supporting teams in managing New Product Development (NPD) and Change Management (CM) programs in support of revenue, productivity, design and quality and delivery improvements. Manage all aspects of NPD and CM program life-cycle and utilize the necessary training, processes and procedures, toolsets, and communication plan to effectively execute across the business stakeholders and project team.
Responsibilities:
1.Actively drive NBO (New Business Opportunity) inquired material cost to do RFQ within the scope of commodity defined supplier panels, or approach costing specialist with commodity team to do quick cost quote with reasonable composition.
2.For the NPI/NPD project, to be behalf of purchasing to contribute values from supplier perspective, for instance the DTC(
design to cost) evaluation according with the product positioning, take valuable actions as ESI(early supplier involvement), supplier sampling and so on.
3.Program purchasing works as the contact window of the supply chain department to take full participate in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, closing stages of the customer's project after the project is officially kick off, lead purchase part management planning definition to identify the risk in early phase and keep updated to project team regularly, provide robust support for project cost control, sample delivery, Gate exit and other tasks at all phases of the projects.
4.In the inquiry phase, program purchasing clarify the purchasing part inquiry requirements and initiate supplier RFQ package send out, supplier quotation collection, supplier commercial negotiation based on SQE feasibility study/DFM closure result, lead the sourcing committee to involve the key stakeholder to award supplier, send put supplier nomination letter, purchasing contact nego and signature, program purchasing keep the whole supplier selection process and result transparency to related stakeholders.
5.Cooperate with SQE to track purchasing part APQP activities (APQP kick off, regular review of tooling/sample development progress, PPAP preparation and release) and lead the project development stage of sample demand identification, PO release and sample delivery tracking activities such as FOT/DV/PV samples, R@R, PPAP, etc. to safeguard the demand of the project are satisfied as required;
6.Support the engineering change requirements in the project development phases, clarify the engineering change requirements, negotiate with supplier about the commercial of the engineering change, track the cost changes caused engineering change and keep the updated info with project team members on the same page.
7.After the PPAP release or conditional release, program purchasing specialist hand over the purchasing part series capacity confirmation and series production delivery to series purchasing team while purchasing part commercial data and contract to strategic commodity team.
8.Track VA/VE projects to ensure that the project are landed on time, and achieve the expected cost reduction benefits after the strategic commodity team officially kicked off with cross-functional team.
9.Others tasks assigned by line manager.
Qualifications:
61Must be a team player and able to build strong relationships internally and externally.
61Must be organized and metric mindset driven.
61Must be able to multi-task and handle multiple priorities.
61Good English skills with fluent conversational communication ability.
61Bachelor degree,major in Technical or business, Master degree preferred.
615-8 years project management experience required, 5-8 years direct material purchasing experience strongly preferred, 10+ years preferred, Automotive industry experience is needed.
61Proven collaboration & project management skills.
61Certificates in 6-sigema, PMP, CPSM, SCMP or other equivalent purchasing certification as plus.