# Buyer, Transmission Components

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600 - $144,900
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Ford Purchasing team adds critical value to the entire organisation. You'll help source high-quality parts and services globally while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop sourcing plans to support supplier onboarding and program targets

- Lead target sign-off processes, prepare RFQs, evaluate supplier quotations, and complete Commercial Agreements

- Drive QCDR processes, including plans to deliver full-year objectives for commodity suppliers

- Develop and maintain strong supplier partnerships

- Lead supplier commercial negotiations and drive cost reduction strategies

- Assist in managing category strategy across regions, including identifying and developing suppliers to deliver quality, delivery, and cost objectives

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree

- Minimum 3 years of direct experience in automotive procurement or supply chain management

- Strong supplier relationship management, communication, and negotiation skills

- Experience in cost analysis, strategic sourcing, and process improvement

- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to resolve supplier issues and achieve program objectives

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with transmission components and systems

- 5+ years of direct automotive procurement and supply chain experience

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

Benefits:

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

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidised 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: $86,600 - $144,900 or $99,100 - $166,200 depending on the salary grade

## Skills

### Required
- strategic sourcing
- cost analysis
- supplier relationship management
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- transmission components
- automotive procurement
- cost negotiations

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