# Buyer, Marketing & Sales

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Purchasing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Marketing Sales & Services Supply Chain Team at Ford Motor Company is responsible for delivering marketing solutions on time, within budget, and compliant with company standards.

As a Buyer, Marketing & Sales, you will manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, identify cost-saving opportunities, and collaborate with internal departments to meet their needs.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop and lead global category implementation strategy

- Coordinate with global purchasing partners to support Marketing Sales & Services

- Drive on-time sourcing of key initiatives for various Ford business units

- Negotiate contract terms and find solutions to meet compliance and mitigate risk

- Build strong cross-functional relationships within internal business units and departments

- Drive supply base optimization and strategic priorities through enterprise spend leverage

- Seek out ways to drive efficiencies, find cost savings, or spend reduction opportunities

- Work with key stakeholders to stay updated on current and future technologies or sources

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree

- 3+ years of supply chain/commodity/program management experience

- Strong communication skills

- Ability to build relationships and trust across organizations

- Strong data & analytics understanding

- Proactive and resourceful with a flexible attitude to changing priorities

- Collaborative leader and team player

- Ability to creatively problem-solve and manage workload with agility

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree

- 5+ years of supply chain/program/commodity management experience in the automotive industry

- Experience with Category Management and/or Category Implementation

- Strong understanding of Marketing Sales & Services offerings

- Strong process competency and knowledge across complex sourcing processes

Benefits include:

- 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

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- contract negotiation
- cost saving
- data analysis
- communication
- relationship building

### Nice to have
- Category Management
- Category Implementation
- automotive industry experience
- Marketing Sales & Services offerings
- complex sourcing processes

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