Procurement Manager

Job Description:

• 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
• 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
  • EV/HEV Motor, Inverter, Reducer gearbox, Transmission
• 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)
• Establish KPI and manage Purchasing/Procurement organization
• Reporting Line
  • HQ Purchasing Director - HQ Purchasing Division Director - CEO
  • HQ reinforcement of purchasing competitiveness TFT team (Target cost and scheduling, Project development timing etc.)
  • Local Purchasing Coordinator in Michigan

Job Requirements:

• Experience with North American car makers and Transmission company in Purchasing or Procurement position
  • America car maker (big 3) preferred
  • Transmission company (ZF, Aisin) preferred
  • High knowledge of Transmission/motor/inverter sub-component supplier
• EV & HEV(Transmission) project proceeding experience
• Minimum 10 years of Purchasing/Procurement experience in automotive industry

• Automobile industry, transmission experience, EV experience

• Work on site in Rochester Hills in MI