Category Manager optimizing sourcing for Adobe’s facilities, leading strategic projects with internal teams and suppliers. Driving value in procurement and ensuring compliance with contracts.
About the role
- Purchasing Buyer managing sourcing and vendor relationships for Exhaust Manifolds at Ford. Delivering quality, cost, and delivery targets while collaborating with suppliers and internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop sourcing plans enabling completion of commercial negotiations and strategic sourcing to support supplier onboard dates while delivering program targets.
- Lead target sign-off process with match-pairs, prepare RFQ’s, evaluate supplier quotations and complete Commercial Agreements
- Lead QCDR process including plans to deliver full year objectives for commodity suppliers
- Develop and maintain strong supplier partnerships
- Lead supplier commercial negotiations, drive cost reduction strategies
- Assist in managing the category strategy (CBP) across regions with annual updates including identifying and developing suppliers to deliver quality, delivery and cost objectives
- Complete critical upcoming sourcing decisions and work with new suppliers on industrialization plans
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of procurement and supply chain experience.
- Availability to work hybrid (4 days in Dearborn & 1 day optional remote).
- **Even better, you may have...**
- Master of Business Administration.
- 3+ years of direct automotive procurement and supply chain experience.
- Experience with strategic sourcing and cost negotiations.
- Great communication and collaboration skills.
- Desire to strengthen negotiation skills and fact-based problem solving.
Benefits
- 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.
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