Job Description
As the Product Procurement Engineer, you will manage part development and quality feedback loops for New Product Introduction (NPI), Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), and New Source Introduction (NSI) related activities by collaborating with suppliers, design control engineers, value chain engineering, and procurement category teams.
* Managing Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Cost management related activities from concept to PPAP to deliver parts at the right quality, total cost, and meet timelines. They accomplish this through collaboration with various functional areas like packaging, transportation, business resources, supply chain, etc.
* Implementing product supply strategies aligned with the category management supply strategies that will create a competitive advantage for our customers by developing, optimizing, and integrating a world-class supply network.
* Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are applied across the supply base.
* Driving Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) through cost modelling, design for manufacturability, and leveraging suppliers’ capabilities.
Top Candidates will have:
* Extensive experience in with supplier management and product development
* Strong written and verbal communication skills dealing with both internal and external partners
What Skills you will have:
* Data-driven Decision Making: Advises on advanced data analysis methodologies and technologies to make more informed decisions; coaches others on improving data validity and reliability; designs KPIs and metrics to analyse data; evaluates opportunities and challenges of data integration; oversees data gathering and analysis; seeks input from multiple sources to generate diverse ideas for decision making.
* Effective Communications: Reviews others\' writing or presentations and provides feedback; adapts documents for the intended audience; demonstrates empathy and assertiveness; communicates well downward, upward, and outward; employs persuasion; maintains focus; follows procedures; uses electronic systems to record supplier information; resolves routine issues; escalates non-routine issues; researches alternative vendors; ensures purchases meet delivery date and quality specs.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
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