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Key Responsibilities:

• Purchases direct material: prepares request for quotations and issues purchase orders and agreements that accurately reflect the awarded price, schedule, terms, and conditions.
• Collaborates and negotiates with suppliers on new and carryover components, program extensions or cancellations as well as engineering changes.
• Ensures appropriate action plans are implemented for supplier related quality or delivery issues (via SQA or Supply Chain), facilitates issue resolution and settles chargebacks and claims.
• Manages the purchasing budget and working capital performance, participates in continuous improvement activities and provides suggestions for cost reductions and improved efficiency.
• Strong focus on VAVE execution, holds cross-functional team members accountable to meet planned implementation commitments, escalates appropriately and in time.
• Maintains a regular meeting cadence and exchange with CPMs and ensures that discussion points and tasks are documented in the respective commodity tracker.
• Ensures the PAP system is kept updated on a weekly basis for the assigned scope and verifies correctness of master data and price changes in the month-end reporting.
• As Program Green Team Member, acts as liaison towards other functions, maintains program tracker and purchasing milestones and orders PPAP and PTR parts.
• Participates in new business acquisition activities for the plants as required and assigned by local Management
• Ensures information records are accurately maintained in SAP, applies 4-eye principle for price changes and PO issuance.
• Complies with GKN Global Purchasing Standards and all departmental policies and procedures.
• Adheres to administrative requirements regarding OSHA, ISO/TS 16949, and ISO 14001.
• Carries out special projects as assigned by management.
• Travels as necessary to vendor locations.