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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a NPI/TPI Buyer located in Guadalajara,North Campus.
Reporting to Buyer Direct, NPI/TPI Buyer this role will be coordination and implementation of ECO changes, new products or end-of-life products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
What a typical day looks like:
- Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery and cost.
- Scouting and supplier selection in line with divisional and local goals and policies.
- Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
- Helping value engineering exercises to improve the value/cost ratios of all parts
- Manage supplier relations
- Arrange correct documentation in order to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project
- Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ)
- Maintenance the purchase price in the system and work off price differences in Baan
- Adjusting in time the correct purchase price in the system and keep traceability upon
- Be a permanent member of the Project team and assure hold up for the Procurerment if needed
- Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
- Organise and monitor initial samples
- Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly
- Help and follow up production, corrective actions
- In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department
- Initiate required design modifications towards the Suppliers
- Monitor the supply market in terms of technologies and costs
- Keep connection with Suppliers
- Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts
- Manage EOL parts with buyers
- Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV
- In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within SC, CFT and with Customer (including Customer/Supplier visits/meetings and calls)
- Coordination and implementation of ECO changes within SC in accordance to Customer specific requirements, with strong focus on ECO related cost collection and reporting
- Coordination transfers of new products in accordance to Customer specific requirements
- Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance to Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete, revaluation)
- Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure)
- In charge of/Co-ordination of preparing material RFQ, as applicable, (Request for quotation for new Bill Of Material and for all new Engineering Change Order /ECO), reviews and analyses new offers from suppliers
- Controlling AMLs and maintaining T&C for new items (collecting and maintaining data, solving discrepancies with Customer, requests for deviations to Customer etc.)
- Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
- Managing changes in deliveries status according to accord rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
- Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
- Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications)
- Should have sufficient knowledge about preferred suppliers in relevant commodities.
- NPI – New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet)
- TPI – Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or Transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume)
- Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up
The experience we’re looking to add to our team (required):
- BA/BS or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in similar position.
- Advanced English
- Typically requires a minimum of 1 year of experience in materials or related field.
- A background in electronics manufacturing is desired.
- Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, data entry, ten-key, spreadsheet (PC), ERP software.
- Solid experience in NPI, part number changes, deviations, implementations, and qualifications.
- Strong experience with suppliers
- Experience using Baan is a plus
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Competitive Salary
- Life & Medical Insurance
- Christmas Bonus
- Food Coupons
- Saving Fund.
- Life Insurance
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Job Category
Global Procurement & Supply Chain
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