Senior Buyer- Seats

Just like a bridge our mission in Purchasing is to connect internal and external partners to deliver world class results. We build our bridge together on solid foundational values. Our global Purchasing team sources over 80 billion in products and services annually. We deliver world class results by embracing our values of Belief, Respect, Innovation, Diversity, Growth and Energy (BRIDGE) as they are the framework for our culture. We believe in a work-life balance and provide team members opportunities for mentoring, learning & development and exposure to senior leadership. FCA takes great pride in fostering an inclusive work environment where employees can leverage strengths, experiences and perspectives. At FCA we believe it is the diversity of talent and perspective that allows us to take a visionary approach to strategically apply new technologies and forge ahead in our industry in innovation and performance.

The Senior Buyer for Seating will support Automotive Seat Module buying in North America and Globally as well as armrest and headrests with an annual value of business of ~500M.

The core responsibilities of this position are the development, ownership and execution of full lifecycle commodity strategies which include but are not limited to:

• Serve as the global commodity team lead for the seat armrest and headrest commodities, coordinating global sourcings synergy acceleration, benchmarking and commodity strategy development and execution.
• Coordinate and manage key supplier open issues, lead and execute business plan and serve as escalation point to drive issue closure.
• Manage complex supply issues ranging from capacity to just in time delivery and regular release fluctuations.
• Sourcing activities supporting the Seat Headrest and Armrest commodities including:
• Supplier negotiations
• Sourcing on time and to target
• Driving annual cost savings activities
• Managing and identifying cost savings activities including Monozukuri Value Optimization and Gap to Should Cost
• Lead the resolution and negotiation of commercial issues

The selected candidate will interact with many cross-functional teams such as engineering, supply chain management, supplier quality and finance.

This position affords the opportunity for career development within the Purchasing organization and with other cross-functional groups. The ideal candidate will strive to continuously improve purchasing processes and more specifically module sourcing and cost management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical), Business, Finance, Economics or closely related field from an ABET accredited university.
• Minimum of 8 years of purchasing or closely related relevant experience.
• Global commodity experience participating in global sourcing activities and working in global teams.
• Strong communication skills and are highly customer focused.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong fluency with MS Office Suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree (MBA) or Engineering (MEEE).
• Demonstrated experience to support more challenging decks which would reflect in more advanced Purchasing Buyer levels including JIT or MPAB experience.
• Previous automotive related and/or global commodity experience.
• Strong interest in the automotive industry.
• Experience working with PentaSAP.
• CPSM Certification.
• International working experience.
• Familiarity with cross-functional Finance, Engineering, SCM, Capacity processes.