Sr Project Manager Purchasing (Technical Buyer)

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.

Welcome to a place where your ideas lead to something big.
Welcome to Bosch.

Job Description

The Sr Project Manager Purchasing - Technical Buyer will be responsible for the following:

• Technical Buyer is responsible for managing an assigned set of commodities and the associated suppliers and materials to ensure the company meets its annual and strategic goals.
• Technical Buyer works directly with the engineering team to ensure that technical requirements are clearly understood and met.
• Technical Buyer will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and qualifying new and existing suppliers to achieve best value.
• Prepare supplier selection - includes RFQ process, supplier evaluation and communication, and participation in sourcing decisions.
• Active participation in definition of product related supplier strategy
• Manage procurement activities for platform and application projects -includes target cost setting.
• Responsible for achievement of quality, cost and delivery targets.
• Interface with: Central Purchasing, material field related purchasing, quality, engineering department and Business Unit
• Ensure preventive quality planning (PQP) for project specific new parts and coordination of their release.
• Promote and support RPP (cost reduction) goals while continually assessing the quality and performance of the supply chain.
• Change management for procured parts.
• Supports series production and after-market when needed.
• Travel domestically and internationally up to 30%

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree 
• 5+ years' experience related to quality of purchasing parts in an automotive environment.
• 2+ years of commercial and technical project management experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Ability to manage multiple projects at various stages of a program
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams

Additional Information

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

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

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

FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

AWIM (A World In Motion)