# Buyer, Power Electronics

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

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation. As a Buyer, Power Electronics, you will lead sourcing execution and support commodity strategy for critical power electronics across Ford's Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) portfolio.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with engineering, finance, manufacturing, and global purchasing teams to deliver competitive cost, quality, delivery, and technology solutions for next-generation vehicle programs.

- Lead sourcing execution across multiple vehicle programs for power electronics commodities, including DC-DC Converters, On-Board Chargers (OBC), Power Inverters, Battery Management Systems (BMS), Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs), electronic assemblies, or related components.

- Own the end-to-end sourcing process, including supplier market assessments, RFIs/RFQs, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and contract execution.

- Drive competitive cost performance through should-cost analysis, benchmarking, cost estimating, and fact-based negotiations to achieve program targets and identify ongoing cost reduction opportunities.

- Partner with engineering to understand product designs, bill of material (BOM) structures, manufacturing processes, and key cost drivers.

- Develop and execute commodity and supply base strategies, including sourcing plans, pricing, tooling, and capacity planning.

- Manage sourcing deliverables to ensure alignment with engineering milestones, vehicle program timing, and launch objectives.

- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to proactively identify and mitigate commercial, supply, and capacity risks.

- Monitor supplier performance and drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, delivery, capacity, and technology.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience in purchasing, strategic sourcing, supply chain, or a related commercial function within the automotive, electronics, or manufacturing industry.

- Experience leading supplier negotiations, commercial sourcing activities, cost analysis, and contract execution.

- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering and suppliers in a technical product development environment.

- Knowledge of power electronics or electronic components, including manufacturing processes, BOM structures, tooling investments, and key cost drivers.

- Strong analytical, negotiation, project management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and supplier partners.

Benefits:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Power Electronics
- Supply Chain Management
- Purchasing
- Negotiation
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) systems
- High-voltage architectures
- Global sourcing
- Cost modeling methodologies

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