Program Buyer 3Year Contract (Maternity Cover)

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Lear a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lears diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation operational excellence and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better by providing the technology for safer smarter and more comfortable journeys. Lear headquartered in Southfield Michigan serves every major automaker in the world. Further information about Lear is available at or on Twitter @LearCorporation.

Following its establishment in 2012 Plzeň has grown into our fastest-growing Engineering Development Center in Europe. The center focuses on the design and development of Lear products including complex seating mechanisms and structures foams coatings plastics and trim components. The vision for Plzen is not to work as an internal supplier for our European business units but to develop into a leading Design and Development Center working on projects for all major European OEM customer groups from concept phase through to delivery.

The Program Buyer coordinates the communication and documentation flow between the regional program and engineering team and the European Commodity Purchasing this role youll play a key part in supporting our sourcing and purchasing activities throughout the program lifecycle.

Your responsibilities:

• Preparing standard RFQ (Request for Quotation) packages based on program needs and forwarding them to the responsible Commodity Buyer.
• Creating and keeping the sourcing calendar up to date.
• Building or reviewing costed BOMs and comparing cost status against targets.
• Acting as a communication link between Engineering/Program teams and European Commodity Purchasing as well as suppliers ensuring timely sharing of drawings engineering data and commercial program information.
• Supporting local plants with supplierrelated challenges (deliveries commercial topics etc.) including escalation to the Commodity Manager if needed.
• Preparing program reports maintaining purchasing data and taking part in program review meetings.
• Providing programrelated inputs for initial sourcing/resourcing processes and supporting contract negotiations; updating roadmaps (volumes/mix) and maintaining data in local systems.
• Supporting supplier development especially with PPAP-related activities.
• Driving costsaving initiatives: proposing ideas leading purchasing-related cost optimization tasks participating in lean assessments and supporting benchmarking or in/outsourcing analyses.
• Working with plant logistics teams to optimize freight and packaging topics.
• Supporting plants in managing excess or obsolete materials with suppliers.

Your qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in purchasing or a similar field.
• Strong English skills; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.
• University degree (BSc/BA) or comparable practical/technical experience.
• Good command of MS Office (Excel Word PowerPoint).
• German language skills are a plus.

Were looking for someone who brings a mix of purchasing knowledge analytical skills and a proactive mindset.

Benefits:

• Attractive salary

• Flexible working hours
• 5 weeks of vacation
• Bonuses for life and work anniversaries
• Commuting allowance
• Meal allowance
• Contribution of employer for pension insurance
• Free-time vouchers Sodexo/Pluxee Flexipasses
• Discounted T-Mobile tariffs for you and family members
• Multisport card and Makro card
• Free tickets (Eishockey football theather)