Senior Buyer - Capital Equipment & Tooling - Piston Automotive

The Sr. Buyer, Capital Equipment & Tooling, leads purchasing activity for capital equipment, tooling, and supporting services for all new launches and large engineering. This role interfaces with Piston Engineering and Cost Estimating teams.

• Developing and evaluating new potential capex and tooling suppliers.
• Compile all necessary documents for setting up new suppliers in ERP system.
• Lead and support RFQ packages for non-production purchases and service contracts.
• Negotiate price, timing, and deliverables with suppliers for all purchase orders and service contracts.
• Evaluate bids for best value and offers recommendations for selection.
• Complete cost breakdown and provides justification for proposals.
• Resolve supplier disputes with regards to price, delivery, or warranty of goods and services.
• Build and maintain supplier bid lists, supplier profile forms, and contact lists.
• Administer purchase order process, including issuing and reconciling purchase orders.
• Engage with Engineering teams to monitor supplier performance.
• Develop small set of key metrics to measure supplier performance used for sourcing decisions.
• Monitor and analyze purchasing spend to assist Cost Estimating.
• Management and oversight of single source supplier list.
• Negotiate discounts levels and standard pricing for single source suppliers.
• Reinforce policy and procedure compliance within the organization.
• Assist with continuous improvement efforts within Purchasing and related cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with Accounts Payable to ensure supplier payments and to resolve invoice discrepancies.

• Eight years’ experience as a Buyer, with direct experience focused on automation, equipment, and tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of automated equipment.
• Strong Word, Excel, and Powerpoint skills.
• Eight years’ experience working with minimal direction and making decisions independently.
• Eight years’ experience working with cross functional teams (collaborating as well as challenging others.).
• Eight years’ experience with demonstrated strong writing skills (summarizing positions in Powerpoint).
• EightSr years’ experience effectively presenting information (i.e. responding to questions from internal leadership, customers, suppliers, etc.).

PREFERRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Eight years’ experience working with a good financial acumen and a demonstrated ability to convey numerical information concisely.
• Eight years’ experience analyzing, and interpreting general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Eight years’ experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.