Sr Specialist Tech Purchasing
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Job Summary
What awaits you:
Receive Statements of Work (SOWs) from AME/MS teams
- Prepare RFQ packages using the TP application
- Interface with suppliers to ensure alignment with Kautex standards and on-time quote submission
- Conduct internal quote review meetings to validate supplier quote conformity and technical alignment
- Lead supplier negotiations using should-cost analysis cost history and benchmarking tools
- Prepare sourcing recommendations for approval by the Director TP or Sourcing Committee
- Upon approval notify stakeholders and initiate project kick-off with AME
- Approve requisitions in Ariba ensuring key commercial terms are included
- Drive supplier development establish service contracts and support cost reduction initiatives (including low-cost country sourcing)
- Manage supplier performance through capacity planning timeline optimization and crisis support (e.g. alternate sourcing stock search third-party resources)
What youll need to succeed:
- BS Degree: Engineering: Mechanical Industrial Electrical or Supply Chain
- Ability to lead meetings and drive towards solutions with suppliers required
- Ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings required
- Experience interfacing with suppliers manuf tooling and machines required
- A base understanding of how machines work is required
- An understanding of how blow molded parts are produced is a plus
- Experience in the automotive industry a plus
- Computer Skills: MS Office SAP/ Ariba MS Project required
- Ability to travel to USA Canada Mexico: plants & suppliers required
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Your day demands everything you have. Every capability in your tool kit should work as hard as you do. When everything’s on the line, Textron Systems is with you. Because the right technologies and the right support are powerful. Groundbreaking thinking across domains, with your succe ... View more