Senior Buyer Aftermarket
- Aguascalientes, Ags.
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
This position will focus on Vehicle Group - Aftermarket purchasing activities for Eaton facilities throughout both the US and Mexico.
This position will interact with multiple Eaton manufacturing locations and manage assigned commodities to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost and quality.
This position will maintain an essential balance between supplier quality, engineering changes, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metric opportunities.
**_ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
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- Lead day to day supplier relationships ensuring production, delivery, and capacity requirements.
Support CONC recovery process, gathering all necessary inputs and leading supplier recovery.
- Helps facilitate cost out projects and commodity strategic actions, while managing engineering part changes, supplier requirements and new part requirements for the commodity.
- Manages all assigned current production supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the assigned commodity base.
- Facilitates cross-functional collaboration of commodity team members to achieve the greatest outcomes in support of the Vehicle Groups Business Units.
- Facilitates supplier questions on accounts payables and supports any necessary activity for disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
- Comply with established SCM policies and procedures and support continuous improvement of EBE processes for SCM Commodity Purchasing
**Qualifications**:**_
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE:_**
- Education and Skills required to meet position qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in supply chain management, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, Mechanical Engineering or general business
- 3 - 5 years of Supply Chain Experience
- Preferred/Additional Specialized Knowledge (not required to be qualified for position):_
- MBA Preferred
- Experience in the Automotive Industry
- Knowledge or experience in basic purchasing policies and procedures, metal market indices, currency management
- Knowledge or experience with SCM Program and Commodity Management functions
- Knowledge or experience with global sourcing and supply base management
- Strong Communication and Presentation Skills
- Knowledge and skills in Oracle MRP, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Mfg., Kan Ban, Vendor Managed Inventory, and consignment
**_FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:_**
- Operational Buyer: Shows experience in commodity management processes; shows results in developing commodity strategies, sourcing projects and negotiations as a leader of a commodity group.
- Market and Customer Knowledge: Learns how to investigate and analyze customer base and requirements to fully understand the impact of purchasing and supplier management strategies.
- Product/Process Development & Launch: Understands product and proposed manufacturing processes with the objective of a flawless launch of new products in the supply base.
- Project Management: Understands knowledge of processes necessary to plan, organize, execute, and manage projects to complete complex tasks on time and on budget.
- Contract Management: Possesses sound knowledge of solid and consistent architecture of supply chain contracts and agreements including terms, timing, and language.
Shows ability to comprehend complex business unit and/or customer requirements to help shape contracts and negotiations.
- Supplier Selection & Collaboration: Understands the critical stages in the sourcing process; possesses knowledge of how to evaluate competitive alternatives and conduct supplier performance reviews.
- Total Cost Management: Is knowledgeable on how to gather and develop spend information; manages spend profile to drive savings and cost out opportunities year over year.
- Material Materials Planning & Management: Understands forecasting, demand planning, scheduling and inventory management tools and concepts necessary to manage supplier relationships and commodities.
- P&L Contribution: Understands financial, business and operational processes to analyze impact of multiple sourcing and supply chain variables on business outcomes.
- Continuous Process Improvement: Possesses sound knowledge of continuous improvement tools and practices, such kaizen and lean, to help drive opportunities to eliminate waste and improve performance.
**_ADDITONAL INFORMATON:_**
- This position requires understanding change is required for success and championing new ideas, bringing forward opportunities for improvement and creating culture of functional excellence.
- The incumbent acts as an exceptional communicator with both internal and external customer interactions.
What you will get from us
Eaton's mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services.
We provide sustainable solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power - more safely, more efficiently and more reliably.
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