# Senior Buyer - Body Capital Equipment and Vision Systems

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Naucalpan de Juarez
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Purchasing
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Senior Buyer - Body Capital Equipment and Vision Systems at Ford's Purchasing team, you will play a vital role in sourcing high-quality parts and services globally while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery.

## Responsibilities

- Create, process, and manage purchase orders to ensure timely and accurate procurement of goods, materials, components, and services.

- Expedite critical orders and proactively resolve delays to maintain production and operations schedules.

- Collaborate with Category Managers and cross-functional teams to address parts availability, inventory planning, packaging, and logistics needs.

- Evaluate and negotiate with suppliers on cost, quality, and service to drive continuous improvement and cost savings.

- Track supplier performance and support risk management to ensure proactive issue documentation and mitigation.

- Collect and analyze supplier and market data, generating reports from enterprise systems like SAP to inform business decisions.

## Requirements

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

- 3-5 years of experience in CAPEX Procurement or Indirect Purchasing, specifically with Fixtures, Vision Systems & Testing.

- Proficiency in both Spanish and English.

- Familiarity with procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Solid negotiation skills and comfort managing a high volume of suppliers and components.

- Ability to stay composed and effective in fast-paced, high-pressure situations.

- Strong analytical thinking and confident decision-making.

- Strategic mindset with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams and influence stakeholders.

- Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization abilities.

- Collaborative approach to building relationships across the organization and with suppliers.

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- negotiation
- analytical thinking
- communication
- SAP Ariba
- ERP systems

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