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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Buyer located in Guadalajara, North Campus.
Reporting to the Material Planning Analyst, this role will be coordination and implementation of ECO changes, new products or end-of-life products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
What a typical day looks like:
- Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery, and cost.
- Scouting and supplier selection in line with divisional and local goals and policies.
- Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
- Helping value engineering exercises to improve the value/cost ratios of all parts.
- Be a permanent member of the Project team and assure hold up for the Procurement, if needed.
- Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
- Organize and monitor initial samples.
- Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
- Help and follow up production, corrective actions.
- In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
- Initiate required design modifications towards the Suppliers.
- Monitor the supply market in terms of technologies and costs.
- Keep connection with Suppliers.
- Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts.




- Manage EOL parts with buyers.
- Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV.
- In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within SC, CFT and with Customer (including Customer/Supplier visits/meetings and calls).
- Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
- In charge of/Co-ordination of preparing material RFQ, as applicable, (Request for quotation for new Bill Of Material and for all new Engineering Change Order /ECO), reviews and analyses new offers from suppliers.
- Controlling AMLs and maintaining T&C; for new items (collecting and maintaining data, solving discrepancies with Customer, requests for deviations to Customer etc.).
- Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
- Managing changes in deliveries status according to accord rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
- Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
- Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications).
- Should have sufficient knowledge about preferred suppliers in relevant commodities.




- NPI - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
- TPI - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
- Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Bachelor's degree in electronics, mechatronics, or similar engineering.
- Advanced purchasing experience in the electronics manufacturing industry.
- Advanced English
- MRP management
- Advanced experience in similar position
- Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, English language knowledge, data entry, ten-key, spreadsheet (PC), ERP software.
- Ability to read, research and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedures.
- Ability to effectively present information and acknowledges to questions from groups.
- Works under pressure.
- Organized
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Competitive Salary.
- Life & Medical insurance.
- Christmas Bonus.
- Food Coupons.
- Saving Fund.
- Life Insurance
AU51
Job Category
General Procurement & Supply Chain
**Required Skills**:
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