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 the Seat Comfort Foam with an annual value of business of ~$300M.

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 comfort foam coordinating global sourcing's, 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
• Lead all sourcing activities for the Seat Foam commodity ensuring sourcing on time and at or below should cost and target

• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical), Business, Finance, Economics, or closely related field from an ABET accredited university
• A minimum 5 years of relevant purchasing experience or other disciplines that require significant negotiation/exposure to sourcing processes
• Global commodity experience: participating in global sourcing activities and working in global teams
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to think and act strategically
• Strong communication, presentation and commodity leadership skills
• Well organized, self-motivated, and resourceful managing complex situations
• Ability to support all aspects of the commercial relationship with the supply base and key internal stakeholders
• Must be skilled at relationship building, cost analysis, negotiation (both internal and external), benchmarking, time management and presentations to all levels of management
• Strong communication skills and are highly customer focused
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Strong fluency with MS Office Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA / Master's degree
• 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