Project Buyer - Seats

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your Tasks

• Responsible for all purchased parts that apply to a customer project regarding costs, quality and deadlines.
• Coordinate changes regarding purchased parts from the acquisition stage through EOP.
• Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies for assigned projects, focusing on high-value, critical components and establishing long-term partnerships with preferred suppliers.
• Drive the procurement of materials from the NAFTA market, ensuring the most competitive cost and quality outcomes through advanced negotiation and supplier management.
• Conduct in-depth cost and value analyses in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including engineering, production, and product management, to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.
• Proactively investigate and recommend material substitutions and alternative manufacturing processes to optimize cost, quality, and supply chain resilience.
• Provide expert support to production teams, overseeing change management processes for technical modifications of purchased parts and leading the implementation of cost-effective improvements.
• Initiate, track, and report cost avoidance measures throughout the product launch phase, ensuring alignment with organizational financial targets.
• Serve as the primary purchasing contact for all customer team members, offering guidance and support on complex procurement activities.
• Oversee the issuance and management of RFQs (Requests for Quotation) prior to SOP (Start of Production) and for engineering changes, both during launch and current production phases.
• Lead the consolidation of supplier proposals and set target prices in close coordination with relevant departments, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

Your Profile

• 5-8 years experience in similar position
• Fluent English is a must
• Experience in cost breakdown analysis, Bill of Materials, Engineering drawing interpretation and Supply Chain
• Management is desirable
• Knowledge and understanding of context in international movement of goods, taxes, etc.
• Strong negotiation skills

We offer you a modern working environment with our Brose working world

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical, insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location