# Buyer, FCDS Supply Chain

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you will play a crucial role as a Buyer in the FCDS Supply Chain team. You will be responsible for identifying and executing cost reduction opportunities across packaging, service supply, and related commodity categories.

## Responsibilities

### Procurement & Sourcing

- Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities across packaging, service supply, and related commodity categories

- Evaluate and mitigate supplier cost increase requests through data-driven analysis and negotiation

- Develop and implement sourcing strategies to improve cost, quality, and delivery performance

- Lead end-to-end sourcing activities, including RFQs, supplier selection, and contract execution for new and existing parts

- Manage supplier relationships, driving accountability for performance, capacity, and continuous improvement

- Ensure adherence to supplier quality requirements and support resolution of quality or delivery issues

### Supply Chain & Operational Performance

- Drive improvements in service supply availability, packaging efficiency, and material flow

- Partner with suppliers to optimize packaging solutions, reduce waste, and improve transportation and handling efficiency

- Support launch readiness and ensure timely sourcing and availability of new parts

### Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Collaborate with supply chain, operations, finance, engineering, and commercial teams to align sourcing strategies with business objectives

- Leverage cross-functional insights to identify opportunities for cost optimization, supplier consolidation, and process improvement

- Coordinate across functions to ensure effective execution of sourcing decisions and supplier strategies

### Performance Monitoring & Analytics

- Analyze supplier performance, cost structures, and operational data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities

- Track and report savings performance, realized vs. forecasted results

- Drive continuous improvement through data-driven decision-making and performance management

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, or a related field/equivalent

- 5+ years of proven ability to deliver measurable cost savings through strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and demand optimization, including managing spend portfolios and tracking forecasted vs. realized results

- Strong analytical capability, including evaluating supplier cost structures (materials, labor, overhead, logistics, packaging) to drive cost control and mitigate increases

- Demonstrated success managing complex commodities and developing effective sourcing strategies in a fast-paced environment

- Excellent project management, communication, and stakeholder influence skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive results

- Self-motivated, highly organized leader with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate independently while contributing to team success

## 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

The salary for this position ranges from $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200 depending on the salary grade, which will be determined based on the candidate's skills and experience.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic sourcing
- supplier negotiations
- demand optimization
- cost savings
- analytical capability
- project management
- communication
- stakeholder influence

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