# Category Implementation Buyer-Exhaust

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $63,480-$141,360
**Category**: Procurement
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're looking for a Category Implementation Buyer-Exhaust to join our Supply Chain team. As a member of our team, you'll be responsible for delivering cost, quality, and delivery targets for the exhaust commodity. This includes developing key relationships within Ford supply chain, engineering, programs, and finance, as well as with our supplier partners.

Your primary focus will be on implementing exhaust category strategy, detailing plans for strategic sourcing, negotiating, supporting design changes, and identifying financial risks. You'll also interact and create strong relationships with cross-functional teams to deliver common objectives, such as quality, cost, and delivery.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver QCDR improvement for three of the top suppliers in the company

- Implement exhaust category strategy: detail plans for strategic sourcing, negotiating, supporting design changes, and identify financial risks

- Interact and create strong relationship with cross functional teams to deliver common objectives (quality, cost, delivery)

- Develop sourcing timing plan for all upcoming program launches in order to allow for cost negotiations and strategic sourcing before meeting supplier on board deadlines and meeting program cost targets

- Deliver all requirements of the sourcing process through new I-ERP system

- Lead supplier negotiations to support 2026 priorities (TVM cost reduction commitments, end-to-end waste elimination ideas, inflation mitigation, supply continuity) and develop Action Plan to achieve those objectives

- Be a team player, adapt to dynamic challenges, problem solve and deliver plans with confidence

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration or Finance OR Bachelor's degree in Engineering

- 2+ years of experience in direct automotive procurement and supply chain experience

- Availability to work Hybrid (4 days in Dearborn & 1 day optional remote)

- Great communication and collaboration skills

- Desire to strengthen negotiation skills and fact-based problem solving

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

Salary: This position is a range of salary grades 5-7 and ranges from $63,480-$141,360. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain
- Procurement
- Business Administration
- Finance
- Engineering
- Negotiation
- Problem Solving
- Communication
- Collaboration

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