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Job Description

Main Responsibilities:

Sourcing Execution & RFQ Support

- Execute RFQs, quote collection, supplier follow-up, and commercial data consolidation for assigned commodities and programs
- Prepare sourcing comparison summaries, supplier quote analyses, and recommendation support materials for reviewby Senior Buyers and Commodity Managers
- Support sourcing packages, nomination documentation, purchase order alignment, cost breakdown collection, and system updates
- Own OneSRM transactions and execute required sourcing-system activities for assigned commodities, suppliers, and programs
- Support market analysis and new supplier onboarding by collecting supplier information, coordinating qualification inputs, and maintaining required sourcing documentation

Ensure supplier quotations are complete, comparable, and aligned with technical, timing, commercial, and quality requirements

- Serve as a primary day-to-day procurement contact for assigned suppliers under the direction of Senior Buyers or Commodity Managers
- Track supplier responses, open commercial items, cost reduction actions, documentation gaps, and procurement deliverables
- Manage supplier setup and vendor master activities, including vendor setup, supplier location changes, BPM requests, and coordination of required approvals
- Administer supplier agreements, including Award Letters, SSOWs, Feasibility Agreements, and LTAs, ensuring documents, approvals, and records are complete and current
- Support material economics and commercial change management through data collection, supplier communication, documentation, follow-up, and escalation of unresolved items
- Support PLA, VAVE/CI, and book-of-business commercial activities,including data preparation, action tracking, supplier follow-up, and documentation of agreed outcomes
- Support supplier negotiations by preparing data, maintaining records, and following upon agreed actions

Help resolve routine supplier commercial issues, invoice/payment discrepancies,



purchase order questions, and documentation requests

Program & Operational Support

- Support customer program sourcing deliverables, engineering changes, launch readiness activities, and production continuity requirements
- Coordinate with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Program Management, andManufacturing to escalate timing, capacity, quality, or supply risks
- Track procurement milestones and ensure assigned actions are completed in support of launch and current production requirements
- Support containment and recovery actions when supplier issues impact production, timing, or customer commitments

Support financially distressed supplier management and resourcing activities by tracking risks, coordinating actions, maintaining documentation, and escalating timing or continuity concerns

Cost, Data &Performance; Management

- Maintain accurate sourcing, supplier, spend, savings, contract, and purchase order data in procurement systems
- Support cost savings initiatives, cost avoidance tracking, and productivity project documentation
- Monitor supplierperformance data and assist with supplier scorecards, business reviews, and action plans

Use data to identify quote gaps, cost variances, supplier response risks, and opportunities forimprovement

- Develop foundational knowledge of automotive procurement, supplier management, sourcing governance, commercial negotiations, and cross-functional execution
- Build readiness for progression into either Program Senior Buyer or Commodity Senior Buyer roles based on business needs, performance, and development interest

Demonstrate increasing independence, ownership, business judgment, and ability to manage supplier interactions with professionalismand urgency

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business,



Engineering, Finance, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 1-4+ years of procurement, supply chain, purchasing, program, manufacturing, or related business experience
- Working understanding of sourcing processes, supplier communication, cost analysis, and procurement documentation
- Strong analytical, organizational, follow-up, and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively across functions
- Ability to travel to suppliersand internal plants up to 15% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

- Automotive or complex manufacturing environment experience
- Experience with ERP, SRM, purchasing, or supplier management systems
- Exposure to RFQs, cost breakdowns, purchase orders, supplier scorecards, or program launch activities
- Interest in developing toward Program Senior Buyer, Commodity Senior Buyer, and Commodity Manager roles

Essential Common Requirements for all Employees:

- Quality System: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Quality requirements.
- Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply and meet allfunction-related EHS requirements.
- Product Safety: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements.
- Compliance: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Compliance requirements
- Information Security: Understand, apply and meet all function-related IT / Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements.
- Must comply with all company policies and procedures.
- Employee must have the ability to work additional hours and / or overtime as needed or assigned to complete job duties on time.
- Ability to multitask, interact politely and professionally with customers, suppliers andvendors, and work cooperatively with employees at all levels.

CSPIRIT – the shared values of our global team

Our culture is shaped by the shared values of our integral team. We may come from different parts of the world and speak a variety of languages, but we are united in our work and shared values, known asCSPIRIT.

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