- Responsible for maintaining Buy/Sell Contracts for Foundry Material requirements, benchmarking data, strategy presentations, global budget and on-time metrics
- Adhere to corporate and unit purchasing and accounting practices and procedures
- Pricing negotiations and Contracting Activities that include, but not limited to:
o Foundry Alloy Pricing negotiation strategy & management
o Bid analytics
o Coordination and alignment of negotiation package components, including Terms & Conditions, SOR, technical documentation
o Leadership sourcing recommendation / alignment - Management of sourcing documentation related to bid events in adherence to the GM Audit Services
- Cooperate with legal to negotiate special contract terms
- Daily supplier interface activities on all commercial items
- Support commercial budget activities
- Support logistics supplier management initiatives, including "Strategic Supplier Engagement"
- Nurture relationship with strategic suppliers by acting as a focal point for commercial issue resolution
- Perform rate management activities including spot buys, rate analysis and supplier requests
- Participate in supplier KPI reviews
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Industrial Engineering, or related field required
- Analysis of Aluminum Market Trends
- Knowledge of Raw Material publications (AMM, LME, FastMarkets, etc)
- Minimum 5+ Years Purchasing, Supply Chain, or related experience required
- Experience with Foundry commodities required
- High level of capability to work independently
- Highly proficient oral and written communication skills
- High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and complex
- Interpersonal skills to work effectively with others and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Negotiation skills
- Ability to prioritize assignments/projects and multi-task within restricted time
- Capable of interpreting contracts
- Demonstrated global business skills
- Ability to travel
- Cost analysis, or manufacturing experience
- Foundry, Aluminum, and Automotive industry experience
- Knowledge of materials management and processing
- Capable of interpreting market data
- Able to read blueprints and to understand basic engineering documents
- Solid knowledge of contract law and its applications regarding purchasing processes
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Description
Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the specific location where employee is expected to report three times per week, at minimum .
The Role: - You will be responsible for purchase of all or a specific portion of productive and/or non-productive materials, supplies, machinery, tooling and/or services. Responsible for actively participating in development of commodity strategy, sourcing/negotiations, global/regional material budget execution, and interface with suppliers or internal stakeholders. Work is of a complex nature involving a considerable amount of initiative, analytical work, and a high level of independent judgment
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