Global Purchasing Manager, Engine Components

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The Ford Purchasing team adds critical value to the entire organization. You’ll help us source the highest quality parts and services from around the globe while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery. You’ll also contribute to establishing a robust supply chain so that we can continually produce the vehicles our customers want.

The IPTS Purchasing team is responsible for managing Powertrain components The IPTS/Engine Components Purchasing Manager will lead a team of buyers in developing and executing the strategy as global lead for a number of key engine components.

In this position...

• Lead and manage a team of buyers to optimize delivering business results, including people development plan, career coaching and mentorship.
• Lead your team in development and execution of commodity sourcing strategies including commodity segmentation (CBP’s), Direct Sourcing Forum (DSF) reviews, etc.
• Lead development and implementation of supply base management strategies with a global view.

What you'll do...

• Support the development of program targets and subsequent sourcing plans.
• Lead supplier relationships by conducting QCDR (Quality/Cost/Delivery/Resiliency) reviews, lead supplier negotiations, provide post sourcing supplier feedback and promptly address issues using a data driven approach.
• Manage regionally driven diversity sourcing efforts (e.g. Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Women Business Enterprise (WBE), Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) principles, etc.) supplier relationships (where required).
• Lead your team in negotiating Best Job 1 pricing, year-over-year cost reductions, multi-year pricing agreements, and annual TVM (Total Value Management) targets.
• Lead your team in executing E2E Cost Attack teams across your responsible supply base.
• Support continued implementation of Category Management/Integration
  Build positive relationships with the supply base (utilize the Supplier Relationship Framework) by:

-acting like a partner
-trusting and being trustworthy
-communicating with consistency
-being fact based
-thinking value not just price

• Build positive relationships with cross-functional business partners.
• Monitor financial health of supply base and addresses risks represents where necessary.
• Monitor quality of supply base and support corrective actions where necessary to help maintain Q1 status.
• Lead your team in negotiating and resolving manufacturing recovery/warranty claims.
• Provide mid-year and YE PR with continuous feedback/identify gaps for training for overall development of team.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 6+ years of supply chain/commodity/program management experience.

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree.
• 10+ years of supply chain/program/commodity management experience in the Automotive industry.
• Strong communicator that can effectively transition from bottom-up details to concise, clear executive-level messaging.
• Strategic and analytical thinking to support development of effective and organized sourcing rationales and commodity strategies.
• Ability to build relationships and trust across organizations to drive decisions and alignment.
• Strong data & analytics understanding for synthesis of complex data into clear, understandable format.
• Ability to interpret and translate organization needs into specific purchasing actions.
• Strong knowledge across complex sourcing processes.
• Proactive and resourceful; comfortable with navigating ambiguity.
• Flexible and adaptable attitude to changing priorities.
• Collaborative leader and team player.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6.
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