JOB DESCRIPTION

Buyer Business Unit 
 

What can you expect?
Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit www.adient.com

What will your responsibilities be?

• Support all program purchasing activities within the given Customer Business Unit while ensuring compliance with overall company objectives, strategies and procedures.
• Coordination of Program Purchasing activities over specific customer business unit to ensure excellent product launches
• Ensure smooth project launches
• Control and approval of all Program Purchasing activities specified in Program launch system and decisions in line with customer demands and commodity strategies
• Guarantee financial control over complex, modular programs from phase 0-5 and over lifetime
• Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all required goods, materials, equipment and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets
• Initiate and support of proper Make or Buy decisions
• Initiate and support Value Analysis/Value Engineering activities
• Initiate and support cost optimization/saving projects
• Program team member for a specific number of programs
• Guarantee compliance with all Adient procedures
• Manage the Suppliers within the given programs (Request for Quotes RFQ, change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolutions etc.)

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

• Commercial or technical degree
• Minimum 2 years in Automotive (preferably) Purchasing of production materials.
• In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
• PC knowledge (MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
• Controlling and cost analysis knowledge
• Relevant SAP knowledge
• Fluent English

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Michaela Cochard on +421 2 5727 1993.

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