Buyer

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Troy, MI
Hybrid
Entry level
Automotive • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
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The Role
The Buyer will manage indirect and direct purchasing categories, identify cost-reduction opportunities, evaluate and negotiate supplier contracts, coordinate purchases, and support division purchasing teams. Key responsibilities include supplier performance audits and addressing high-risk supplier issues.
Summary Generated by Built In

What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
The Magna Exteriors portfolio of products includes access systems such as liftgates, exterior trim, modular systems, front-end modules including fascia, active aerodynamic systems and other lightweight structural components for automotive, commercial truck and other industrial markets.
Recognized globally as an innovator in all aspects of vehicle exteriors, Magna provides everything needed, from materials development and design through manufacturing and assembly, to help automakers create sleek, state-of-the-art vehicles across the world.
Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage indirect and direct categories. Identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership, consolidate data and optimize total landed cost of one-time high-quality products at our divisions.
  • Identify spend across multiple divisions to leverage total buy.
  • Manage high risk supplier issues. Includes supporting resourcing plans, plant visits/audits, contingency planning including bank build oversight and other support as required.
  • The position requests quotes, evaluates/selects suppliers, negotiates contracts, coordinates the purchase of indirect and direct component parts, drives domestic and global sourcing, and audits supplier performance.
  • Purchasing lead on the fastener usage consolidation and pricing negotiations.
  • Support division purchasing teams as required.
  • Other related duties as assigned.


Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Magna Exteriors

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The Company
HQ: Aurora, Ontario
171,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

We are a mobility company that innovates like a start-up and thinks like a technology company. This helps us anticipate change in one of the most complex industries in the world and respond quickly. We depend on a team of 171,000 dynamic, entrepreneurial-minded employees in an environment where great ideas flourish. Our presence spans 343 manufacturing operations and 88 product development, engineering and sales centers in 29 countries.

We understand that you need a career as unique as you are. Whether you want to advance your existing expertise or try something completely different, we are committed to your growth.

Why Work With Us

At Magna, our engineering team is advancing mobility for everyone and everything. Joining this team means being a part of the design, development, and manufacturing of the world’s most advanced mobility technology. Innovations that move families, shape communities, and improve lives. You can follow your passions and shape your own career path.

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Lowell, Massachusetts
Monterrey, Mexico
Munich, Germany
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Saltillo, Mexico
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