Purchasing Assistant Manager

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Human Resources Professional Rochester Hills, MI, US

Sr. Specialist

Job Description

• Take charge of supplier sourcing of EV, HEV North America projects and
• overall management of below activities.
• Discover suitable suppliers of sub-component/parts in North America
• Evaluate new suppliers and expand North America supplier pool
• Fulfillment of localization to meet USMCA conditions
• Achieve required target price
• Meet required specifications and quality
• Target : Sub-component/parts for below application
• Calculate of NA supplier price by each project (collect quotation)
• Analysis of cost and price negotiation with supplier
• Meet required HQ target price, Report quoted price to HQ
• Bidding and supplier nomination
• Review, modify supplier contract and responsible for project event (Fulfill requirement of purchasing, delivery, quality, etc)
• Experience with North American carmakers and
• Transmission company in Purchasing or
• Transmission company (ZF, Aisin) preferred
• High knowledge of Transmission/motor/inverter Experience

Preferred

• Minimum 7 years of Purchasing/Procurement experience in automotive industry
• Work on site in Rochester Hills in MI (No work from home)
• 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
• 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
• Review measures to build price competitiveness by utilizing existing local companies
• Utilization of existing machines and factory to minimize new investment cost
• 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
• Sharing information related to benchmarking other companies' production lines and localization
• Investigate cost reduction factors and gathering VA/VE ideas and etc.
• 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))
• Bidding and supplier nomination, Signing of purchasing contract

Type

Main Job Description

Main Duty to Localize organization

• 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