• Responsible for tracking sourcing and launch-related purchasing activities on time, including PPAP readiness, tooling status, sourcing and nominations, prototype orders, sample deliveries, supplier milestones, and launch open points.
• Report supplier readiness, BOM cost status, commercial risks, and project purchasing status to Program Management and Purchasing senior management.
• Prepare and lead supplier negotiations regarding cost, timing, legal and contractual topics, while mirroring customer requirements into supplier commitments and supporting alternative negotiation concepts and make-or-buy decisions.
• Prepare, invite, and execute supplier workshops covering cost-down actions, feasibility, synergies, capacity, supply chain issues, technical constraints, and launch-readiness risks.
• Support cost estimates, target price setting, business case assumptions, and purchased material cost build-up during customer RFQ and program development phases.
• Execute the purchasing process, including RFQ package preparation, RFQ execution, quote analysis, negotiations, supplier nominations, sourcing documentation, and change request processing.
• Process and supervise prototype, sample, tooling, and launch-related orders until structured handover to the plant, Serial Life Buyer, and relevant commodity owners.
• Develop, define, and track cost-saving potentials including VA/VE, design-to-cost, localization, benchmarking, dual sourcing, and supplier productivity actions.
• Support preparation and presentation of project-relevant purchasing data to Program Management, Finance, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, Purchasing leadership, and management board stakeholders when required.
• Create and maintain expert understanding of supplier markets, key sub-suppliers, capacity constraints, cost drivers, and supplier business relationships relevant to assigned programs.
• Act as purchasing head of project for assigned programs and provide functional leadership to the purchasing project team.
• Monitor safe and timely launch activities and support resolution of issues related to sourcing, cost, supplier readiness, capacity, tooling, delivery, or commercial alignment.
• Act as first escalation level, sparring partner, and trainer for purchasing colleagues and cross-functional team members on program purchasing topics.
• Organize and set up the purchasing project team for assigned programs, ensuring clear roles, interfaces, and open-action tracking across Commodity Management, Serial Life Buying, Supplier Quality, Supplier Development, Operations, Finance, and Engineering.
• Support improvement and challenge of existing purchasing tools and methods, including screening helpful IT tools and digital enablers for project purchasing execution.