Purchasing Assistant Manager

Sr. Specialist

Job Description

Preferred

ㅇ Experience with North American carmakers and

Transmission company in Purchasing or

Procurement position

- America carmaker (Big 3) preferred

- Transmission company (ZF, Aisin) preferred

- Major Tier 1 preferred

- High knowledge of Transmission/motor/inverter

sub-component supplier

ㅇ EV & HEV(Transmission) project proceeding

Experience

ㅇ Minimum 7 years of Purchasing/Procurement

experience in automotive industry

ㅇ Work on site in Rochester Hills in MI

(No work from home)

ㅇ Reporting Line

- Purchasing Team leader – Purchasing Coordinator - HQ Purchasing Team

* HQ reinforcement of purchasing competitiveness TFT team

(Target cost and scheduling, Project development timing etc.)

* Local Purchasing Coordinator in Michigan

Main Job Description

1. Development of new local suppliers with price competitiveness

(Global company, New North American enterprise, Local Company)

- Investigate potential suppliers and evaluate new suppliers (Quality control and response level of mass production)

- Expand supplier pool by fostering quality, development capabilities of suppliers

- Review and discuss design specification to suppliers (MS/ES SPEC, packaging specification, etc.)

- Review prime cost and price negotiation of piece price

- Suggest for collaboration to cost competitive supplier for strategic partnership or long-term partnership

- Response to parts development and manage development schedule, inspect process

2. Review measures to build price competitiveness by utilizing existing local companies

- Utilization of existing machines and factory to minimize new investment cost

3. Encourage Korean companies to enter the local(North America) market

- Review relationship with supplier’s other project volume + our project volume

- Reduce the risk of supplier’s investment cost, suggest strategic cost by securing operate funds and

stabilize parts supply

4. Sharing information related to benchmarking other companies' production lines and localization

- Investigate cost reduction factors and gathering VA/VE ideas and etc.

5. Collect and manage prime cost data to establish local prime cost standards

- Raw materials, wage rate, main expense item, etc. (Cooperate with HQ if necessary)

6. Bidding and supplier nomination, Signing of purchasing contract