Sr. Project Manager Purchasing - New Braking Systems

Company Description

Why Bosch?
Our strategic objective is to create connected solutions, improving the quality of life worldwide.
What’s important to us?

• Make Your Mark: Give your job a meaning, with solutions “Invented for Life”
• Shape Tomorrow’s World: The future offers many opportunities. Be the first to take advantage of them.
• Find Your Place: You know how you can work best. We offer the conditions you need.
• Balance Your Life: Make your job match your lifestyle. We provide you with individual support.
• Walk The Talk: Where you are – our team spirit is with you.
• Discover New Directions: You way might change – we will stay by your side.
• Be Yourself: Your diversity makes us special. Enrich us with your own unique personality.
• Pay It Forward: We love our business and our environment. Let’s save them both for future generations.

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Job Description

• Purchasing representative in the product development process and cross-functional SE-teams.
• Responsible for achievement of quality, cost and delivery targets as well as preparations for supplier selection incl.RFQ process, supplier evaluation and communication, and participation in sourcing decisions.
• Responsible for the management of cost saving activities for procured parts as member of cross-functional team (RPP).
• Purchasing responsible for the change management for procured parts (ECR) and interface to material field and quality purchasing within the purchasing organization.
• Responsible to conduct Technical Supplier Discussions with suppliers (TSD), engineering and purchasing related functions to clarify part and quality requirements.
• Evaluate and confirm technical feasibility for awarded suppliers.
• Evaluate and coordinate risk assessment for potential suppliers for business awards.
• Perform  Purchasing Reviews to evaluate delivery, cost and quality of assigned project launches.
• Responsible to evaluate and coordinate RPP project saving activities for supplied purchased components.
• Demonstrate project management skills including planning, prioritizing, monitoring, coordinating planned task in project launch scenarios. 
• Travel required: Up to 30% (domestic and international)

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 5+ years experience in engineering, project management, or purchasing
• 3+ years experience working in the Automotive industry
• 3+ years of experience with Mechanical and Electro Mechanical components in any of the following: Gray Iron, Plastics, Castings, Turned Parts, Stampings, Motors

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Engineering degree discipline in Industrial, Electrical, Mechatronics or similar.
• Technical project purchasing or commercial purchasing
• Experience in supplier quality assurance
• Experience in plastic molding, metal forming (stamping, machining, cold-forging) and EC motors
• Solid understanding of cost drivers of Electro Mechanical components 
• Sound knowledge of MS-Office applications
• SAP experience
• Good Project Management Skills (Planning, Coordinating, Prioritizing, and communicating complex task within the project team, risk assessment escalation).
• Collaboration Skills, Flexibility and Assertiveness.
• Willing to work in the international environment, with ability to ability to adapt to different project requirements, environments and to travel with and outside home country when necessary.
• Personality and Working Practice: result orientation, initiative, reliable and team-orient, ability to lead cross functions teams, good skills to efficiently develop a network in a complex organization

Additional Information

Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only.  Future sponsorship for work authorization unavailable. 

By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce – EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled.

Bosch is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives