Job Title: Project Buyer

Job Location: Southfield, MI

What we offer:

Veoneer develops cutting-edge technology for the Future Car. Our international, agile and highly collaborative teams aim to accelerate the growth in Autonomous Driving and be the leader in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. We empower our people and are dedicated to their professional development and growth.

With 7500 employees in 13 countries, our growing team has the goal to lead the revolution underway in the automotive industry…and then be the pioneer for what comes next.

What you'll do:

The Project Buyer is responsible for ensuring alignment between the supplier, project team, and manufacturing to meet quality, cost, and delivery targets.

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  Establishes and manages a timeline for all (local, regional or global) purchasing activities to meet project milestones and Purchasing deliverables in VPDS.
• Link between Project Team and Commodity Buyers to ensure the sourcing of preferred suppliers.
• Ensures that the supplier complies with Veoneer’s procedures. (contract reviews, TFC, etc.)
• Works with manufacturing/logistics to ensure component availability and supplier readiness on new programs, as required.
• Call/participate launch readiness reviews.
• Coordinate schedule for Run@Rates.
• Cross-functional team member by customer /product.
• Maintain purchasing required information in component tracking system.
• Responsible for launch VE/VA activities (with Commodity Buyer support)
• Plant visits.
• Supplier visits, if required.
• Coordinates with SQE to ensure supplier deliverables meet the project requirements. (collect Q.O.S. data (e.g. PPAP & D.R.).
• Help support engineering change, when requested by commodity buyer.
• Works with manufacturing/logistics to ensure component availability and supplier readiness on new programs, as required.
• Create constraint plans, as required.
• Ensure component capacity in place for customer programs, as required.
• Issue discrete PO's for Samples (not prototypes) prior to SOP, as required.

What you'll bring:

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  2 to 5 years of applicable experience preferred, preferably in automotive electronic components.
• Negotiation skills.
• Strong organizational and communication skills are critical.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in excel required.
• Knowledge of MRP systems (JDE) is beneficial.
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  Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management preferred (or other related degree)