Procurement Sourcing Principal Specialist

Job Description

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

​ About this Position :

Lead Specialist assigned to high-complex commodities and most impactful areas within procurement sourcing teams. Responsible to provide expertise for the assigned auto part commodity piece price, investment, and annual cost reduction, all of which have significant impact on HDMA financial performance. Establishment of part and supplier strategies through understanding of the Global and North American supply base, manufacturing process and critical part design elements. Utilize expertise and key stakeholder input to propose the selection of the best cost, quality, development, and delivery supplier. Provide input to key business plan themes, initiatives, and achievement for specialized area. Responsible to maintain supplier relationships through sale director level supplier contacts. Effectively lead and develop cost targets and strategies to achieve NM Model cost reduction goals for specialized area, monitoring progress and performance against the project, plan versus actual.

Responsibilities include :

• Lead, develop, create, and manage specialized area to create and implement commodity part and supplier strategies, identify top cost / complex issues and prioritize areas for improvement (cost, efficiency, process). Desk management at Annual Desk Spend ($1B ~ $1.5B), Exclusive Investment ($12 ~ $17M),
• Research and monitory industry trends (sourcing, technology, market price) for development of Model and Supplier Strategies
• Establish and correlate with design (ADC) on logical cost targes and maker layout proposal, managing multiple model (13-17) developments
• Lead and manage specialized area to meet KCP, Business Plan achievement, project requirements, and new model targets.
• Develop and lead supplier relationships
• Develop, lead, and implement cost reduction strategies for specialized area. Solve complex Q&D relationship issues, support in supplier financial distress cases, develop / execute rational PPA plans. Desk spend based on part complexity (Annual Cost Down Target ($30 ~ $35M)
• Lead special projects for Division that support business need (i.e. geopolitical impact such as tariffs). Report to Procurement Leadership (Div / BU Leads)
• Mentor associates within group on problem solving, procedures, and fostering development

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Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.