With over 100 years of innovation, experience and industry leadership. Our cutting-edge products and technologies are used by the most successful manufacturers in the automotive industry, including general motors, ford motor company and stellantis.
This is your opportunity to join strattec as a *commodity buyer (services)*
*objetive*: develop and implement category strategies including lead of negotiations, supplier selection, supplier relationship, stakeholder management and implementing contracts for purchasing categories related to services (e.g., security, cleaning, employee transportation, cafeteria)
*primary duties and responsibilities*
- negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and contracts and service agreements with suppliers, and prepares and processes purchase orders for the procurement of services (e.g., security, cleaning, transportation, cafeteria, facilities maintenance)
- develops and implements purchasing strategies for cost reduction, supplier consolidation, service delivery improvements and process efficiencies
- scouts the market for services supplier base optimization (e.g. security, cleaning, employee transportation, cafeteria)
- supports the functional teams (e.g. Hr, ehs, maintenance) with recurrent supplier’s performance reviews and promotes the use of services scorecards.
- end to end project manager for savings initiatives from idea creation to implementation and financial validation
- works with requestors to ensure that proper sow, sor or specs are set
- leads continuous cost reduction process for category
- provides service to multiple sites and functional teams in mexico and usa
*qualifications*
- bachelor's degree in supply chain management, finance, business, or engineering or equivalent supply chain management experience.
- minimum of 7 years experience sourcing and negotiating contracts in mexico and usa.
- understanding of labor law requirements focused on subcontracting and outsourcing (e.g. Repse certification in mexico) and/or environmental legislation and regulations.
- experience in purchasing category management, price and terms negotiation, contract writing and cost analysis
- experience reading and developing technical specifications, statement of requirements and/or scope of work documents in preparation for rfq’s and contracting processes.
- negotiating experience at all levels.
- solid analytical skills, able to analyze large data bases to develop strategies
- project management experience to coordinate with multiple functional areas to achieve desire results.
- experience working on a multisite, multicultural environment
*job types*: full-time, permanent
*salary*: up to $1.00 per month
application question(s):
- how many years of experience in purchasing categories related to services (e.g., security, cleaning, employee transportation, cafeteria)?
*education*:
- bachelor's (preferred)
work location: in person