Job Details

What you will do:
How you will do it:
- Negotiations: Serves on both negotiation teams and as negotiator. Supplier Agreements will have business unit in scope.:
- Technical Ability: Supports strategy development and coordinates cross-functional business teams through a high level understanding of technology, value added engineering, industry and market conditions.:
- Quality and Supplier Productivity: Pro-actively drive supplier productivity initiatives and jointly develop supplier quality road maps through the use of TQM principles.:
- Teamwork: Serves as a motivator who seeks communication and diverse viewpoints from stakeholders.:
- Supplier Capability Management: Anticipates market changes and uses them to develop commodity plans that leverage supplier capability.:
- Integrated Supplier Management: Supports cross-functional initiatives to link supplier capabilities to potential product development/ enhancement opportunities.:
- Material Focus:



Leads and facilitates cross-functional teams formulating material flow and logistics strategies to support manufacturing initiatives.:
- Responsibility for achieving the business unit procurement goal - and action plans. Meet or exceed profit plan goals: cost savings, economics, supplier rationalization, NPI and other agreed objectives.:
- Provide financial expertise/support in terms of supplier part specifications, tooling + investment budgets, customer conditions, cost tracking, etc. so that program targets and purchasing goals are met:
- Guarantee supplier pricing control over the programs from phase 0-5 and over life time:
- Coordinate the supply chain requirements e.g. when/how to source, early sourcing, cross program supplier selection etc.:
- Guarantee integration and communication with general commodity teams.:
- Ensure smooth project launches by controlling the acquisition, sourcing on time and in line with expectations until SOP:
- Support of proper Make or Buy decisions:
- In addition to the above me

📌 Sr Buyer (Saltillo)
🏢 Johnson Controls
📍 Saltillo