# Advanced Sourcing Buyer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Advanced Sourcing Buyer will play a crucial role in developing and executing global sourcing strategies, leading negotiations, and managing end-to-end supply chain activities for multiple commodities within electric vehicle programs.

Responsibilities:

- Lead sourcing initiatives for assigned commodities, including sending RFQs, cost analytics, supplier negotiations, and contract execution.

- Manage the cost, quality, and delivery of commodities over the program lifetime.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements and provide sourcing solutions that align with business goals.

- Conduct supplier evaluations and develop should-cost tools to drive fact-based negotiations.

- Manage supplier relationships to ensure timely delivery of products and resolve any issues that may arise.

- Monitor market trends and identify opportunities for cost savings and product improvements.

- Work closely with Engineering counterparts to understand development timelines and create creative commercial agreements.

- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures in all sourcing activities.

- Onboard new suppliers to Ford processes and evaluate end-to-end supply chain readiness.

- Promote transparency and management of the entire supply chain value stream with suppliers.

- Drive full ownership of assigned commodities, end to end.

- Promote efficiency and simplicity in operations and processes.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in procurement, preferably within the Automotive industry.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead key cross-functional relationships.

- Effective negotiation and ability to build and maintain relationships with suppliers.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with a focus on thinking creatively and out-of-the-box.

- High learning agility.

- Proficiency in procurement systems.

- Knowledge of sourcing best practices and industry trends.

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays

Salary:

- Salary grade 6: $74,300-$124,500

- Salary grade 7: $86,600-$144,900

- Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- supply chain
- Engineering
- Business
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills
- negotiation skills

### Nice to have
- procurement systems
- sourcing best practices
- industry trends
- should-cost tools
- fact-based negotiations

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