# Buyer, Electronic Lower Steering

**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**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you'll be responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies for assigned commodities and programs as a Buyer, Electronic Lower Steering at Ford Motor Company, which operates globally.

You'll manage cost, quality, and material efficiency through Total Value Management and establish annual cost-saving targets across commercial, design, manufacturing, and supply-chain opportunities.

Your main tasks will include:

- Executing the buying and sourcing strategy for assigned commodities, including supplier selection, negotiations, RFx events, tactical sourcing, spot buys, and contract administration.

- Developing material cost roadmaps and sourcing strategies that balance cost, capacity, quality, timing, and business requirements.

- Analyzing market conditions, supply/demand, supplier capacity, financial health, and industry trends to identify risks, opportunities, and sourcing actions.

- Providing data-driven recommendations to support business decisions.

- Partnering with Engineering and Product Development to identify cost reduction, design efficiency, manufacturability, and commercial opportunities.

- Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships while developing negotiation strategies that create leverage and deliver measurable value.

Requirements include:

- 3+ years of strategic purchasing/buying experience, preferably in automotive or a manufacturing environment.

- 1+ years of experience purchasing production components, including exposure to suspension parts such as bushings or ball joints.

- Experience with sourcing, supplier negotiations, commercial analysis, or commodity management.

- Proficiency in purchasing systems, processes, and procedures with strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.

- Strong negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive business decisions.

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, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

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

The salary range for this position is $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200 depending on the salary grade, with the final determination based on candidate's skills and experience.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic purchasing
- supplier negotiations
- commercial analysis
- commodity management
- analytical skills
- data-driven decision-making
- negotiation
- influencing

### Nice to have
- 5+ years of strategic purchasing/buying experience
- 3+ years of experience purchasing production components
- familiarity with manufacturing processes
- supplier operations
- cost structures
- value engineering

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