Buyer, Img E&pi Purchasing

3 weeks ago


Chennai, India Ford Motor Company Full time

Work Closely as an effective team that optimizes delivering business results with employee development and fulfillment; including people development plan and career coaching
- Support Program Control and Commodity team with Commodity Segmentation process
- Support the team in developing and executing commodity sourcing strategies, program targets and sourcing status
- Support the team in cascading program information to Commodity Purchasing
- Review program milestone papers, providing appropriate feedback to Program Control, and cascade critical items that may impact commercial performance to commodity leadership team
- Support the team to verify and track Long-Lead Funding (LLF) that is booked in program - communicate to commodity team
- Support / Lead regular program status reviews with Commodity Management for status - Program Execution Integration/Program Review Meetings
- Support PD program meetings as required as the voice of Commodity Purchasing
- Eensuring on-time completion of purchase orders and tool orders in support of program deliverables
- Manage routing / signing of Supplier On-Board Agreement (SOBA) / Program Communication Package (PCP) / Commercial and Program Agreement (CPA)
- Support Sourcing/Tooling Program Attribute Team (PAT) meetings to communicate buyer status as required
- Support the team in managing, scheduling and facilitating CPA escalations in support of delivering program timeliness
- Driving achievement to Quote Verification Coverage (QVC) - 70% at
and 90% at
Communicate Program Direction Letter (PDL) changes to buyers and suppliers as required
- Support
- Align with Cross Functional team (Program, Finance, Cost Estimating) on surrogate and control model selection
- Participate in Best of Best (BoB) / Best of Process (BoP) ( support Program Control with commodity selection and scheduling)
- Validate purchasing alignment with Commercial Impact/PTI in financials (with support from TVM/CBP Finance to get initial commodity level Business Plan Targets)
- Confirm localization percentage for each region
- Support priority supplier selection process / identify high risk suppliers
- Facilitate Commodity Planning process
- Maintain PMT level Target Setting Tracker through
- Develop supporting SharePoint structure
- Ensure MP alignment and approval of Targets
- Communicate Structured Assumption Language Template (SALT) file to Commodity Team to support preliminary sourcing approach planning
- Communicate Commodity Sourcing Approach plan to Program Control
- Obtain Buyer/Manager concurrence on waterfalls in support of
- Obtain Global Purchasing Director approval on waterfalls in support of
- Support Manufacturing Cost Studies along with Buyer as required
- Support Make/Buy studies, along with Buyer as required.
- Participate and coordinate buyer attendance in program related workshops - Design to Target (D2T), Target Setting, etc.
- Support ILVS studies as required
- Support commodity team with vetting and analysis of capacity study requests
- Build positive relationships with Product Development (PD), Commodity Purchasing, Purchasing Program Control and PD Program Management by:

- Acting like an engaged business partner
- Trusting and being trustworthy
- Communication with consistency
- Being fact based
- Thinking value not just price
- Commercial business acumen

**International Markets**
- Technical or engineering degree, desirable (Btech with MBA)
- Advanced English Language skills, if job role entails global responsibility



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