Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87.000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.
Advanced Purchasing (AP) is the purchasing representative from aquisition phase through the product development starting with the concept phase until SOP and support purchasing activities in series production. AP is leading the planning and execution of component sourcing and act as the interface to the purchasing categories.
AP actively participate in the material strategy development derived from the BA technology roadmap and translate this in a tangible strategy input for category management.
Task areas /Main tasks
- Product Development Process/ Control the supplier-related milestones during the product development phase with on-time component sourcing
- Ensure involvement of suppliers at an early development phase (e.g. ESI) if requested (concept phase)
- Maintain and document supplier and material status (e.g. for Gate Reviews)
- Drive and control the change management process for components towards the suppliers, categories and SQM until SOP
Component Sourcing and Supplier Selection
- Lead the sourcing team in accordance to the automotive sourcing process, tracking of sourcing planning and execution from kick-off to supplier nomination
- Drive the sourcing to achieve best cost and quality ( capacity ), meeting all project milestones, to guarant