Program Buyer Assistant

Program Buyer Assistant

JOB PURPOSE (Vision & Mission):

This role involves the coordination of all purchasing activities related to costing materials for new business pursuit programs, reporting SCM-related figures, request and compile all supplier offers assuring the most competitive conditions.

WHAT APTIV EXPECTS (Behavioral Attributes):

The position holder is expected to be a person, with strategic focus, self-confident, being able to achieve results and motivate others to perform.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (under Program Buyer Flow 3 Senior supervision):

• Program Buyer is part of the Advanced Purchasing team New Business Pursuing team and is acting as the interface between SCM and other functions for all direct material related topics within New Business Pursuit opportunities, identified by Sales/Aptiv top management;

• Program Buyer represents and contributes on behalf of the SCM function in the standard gate reviews as well important technical meetings of each program such as:
  • Team meetings
  • Cost gate meetings
  • Customer Specific Requirements Review
  • Technical meetings
  • Suppliers meetings
  • Handover meetings
• Program Buyer is responsible to report all SCM related figures and should be the point of contact for any clarification related to:

• Outside Material costs
• Allied Material costs
• Copper/Aluminium weight
• ACS% and HT% material integration as per portfolio defined
• Tooling/ Validation/ D&D costs for new tooled items
• Estimations/Assumptions
• Material performance commitment

• Coordination of all purchasing activities related to materials costing for the new business pursuit programs
• Trigger discussion with PE to align materials with SCM strategy as much as possible
• Request information from Sales and Suppliers to identify CDB (Customer Direct Buy) earlier as possible
• Get suppliers offers and assure the information quoted is aligned with Aptiv standard conditions
• Assure that all Category strategy is followed during quotation process
• Support activities to include Localization strategy
• Participate in all gates and team meetings from different stakeholders to drive and improve the figures to allow Aptiv competitiveness
• Drive Mat% commitment details to be presented to SCM management to agree on final figures to be reported
• Conduct bench marking activities among different suppliers to obtain best market prices and/or tooling costs from the beginning; Keep history of data
• Usage of our tool to look for contractual prices, logistics details and existing LTA's
• Collect and maintain records up to in all pre-defined files and tools
• Prepare accurate estimations as best as possible in cooperation with PE and Sales teams, track them and find ways to replace them by real prices
• Based on information provided by PC&L plant teams - provide inputs in the BOM extras costs
• Report at Cost gate meeting all the values that will be used for Finance
• Assure that all necessary information will be transferred during Handover gate to Flow 4 Program Buyers and keep data stored on SCM Adv. Share point
• Keep all historical data updated in Flow3 share Point and Adv. Purchasing Share point
• Support Pre-development activities as per request (Flow 2 activities)

• Good cost understanding and capability for cost analytics
• Knowledge and understanding of industrial Product Development Processes, for automotive industry
• Good team player with interpersonal skills
• Relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Purchasing related field, preferably in an automotive manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of the development and launch processes
• Good Knowledge on MS Office
• Knowledge of Market Intelligence & Data analytics
• Good Communication Skills
• English Advance is mandatory
• Knowledge of Digital Tools in Procurement
• Experience in supply chain, shall be minim 1 year Understanding/experience of/with industrial mass production processes
• Good Business
• Understanding Familiar with automotive processes (product development/validation timing, technology and requirements existing in the automotive business ...)
• Be able to challenge situations across departments
• Knowledge of current sustainability trends
• Basic notion of negotiation skills