Program Purchasing - Battery
Location FORVIA HELLA is a listed international automotive supplier. As a company of the FORVIA Group, FORVIA HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and vehicle electronics and, with the Lifecycle Solutions Business Group, also covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles. With currently around 36,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of €8.1 billion in fiscal year 2024.
YOUR TASKS
- Member of the Product Center Leading Team
- Responsible for Material Cost of Product Center, evaluation and drive material BOM cost improvement
- HK1 Material Cost Owner, drive BOMs cost competitive to support products centers win and roll out projects with required financial KPI, including E-BOMs and M-BOMs
- Supplier Management for prototypes and C-Samples in TtM Phase
- Program Purchasing with functional team internal or external to meeting
- Is the contact to the project team for all purchasing relevant topics within Ttm and OtD phase
- Commitment to P2R Material Cost (Project) Targets and responsible to meet P2R targets
- Coordinates all purchasing related topics of the respective project
- Responsible to keep all purchasing milestones of the respective project
- Is the contact to the project team for all purchasing relevant topics within Ttm and OtD phase
- Approval of Material Group Strategies
- Drives DtC and ReDtC measures
- Responsible to transfer all needed information to strategic purchasing
- Responsible of planning and performing of Technology WS with dedicated Product Centers (“Pitch WS”)
- Alignment on Annual Price Negotiations (“APN”)
- Pre-series demands ordering
- Others assigned tasks by supervisor
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS- Education: Degree in Engineering/ Technology or Business Commercial subject.
- Typically, 5+ years in a purchasing role. Working in and preferable leading multi-functional project teams.
- Good English communication skill for Daily work with global colleagues.
- Excellent interpersonal and communicational skills. Good team player and able to communicate and persuade with stakeholders.
- Ability to express a subject clearly and understandable and to persuade others. Good organizational skills, Ability to prioritize tasks. Ability to adjust or adapt to changed situations, problems solving efficiency
Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company.
FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity.
Please send us your application via our career portal, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, with the reference number req17421.
Monica Ji
monica.ji@forvia.com
