Buyer, Power Electronics

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.