Daimler Truck North America

Senior Buyer – Program Manager III

Daimler Truck North America

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Detroit • Missouri • United States

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Salary

💰 $95,000 - $121,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Collaborate with engineering in early product development stages to understand technical requirements
  • Identify excellent suppliers capable of meeting design, manufacturing, and material specifications
  • Work together with Engineering to develop and validate strong, capable, and innovative supplier partners
  • Analyze and apply appropriate tools, i.e. cost models, benchmarking, competitive global sourcing, value chain analysis, supplier negotiations, engineering change cost containment, technical cost reduction, etc.
  • Develop business cases and sourcing recommendations considering multi-dimensional and complex tradeoffs such as optimization of total cost of ownership; local regulatory requirements vs. global platform synergies; best sourcing country vs. local-for-local production scenarios; multi-source vs. single source supplier strategies; in-house vs. external supplier supplied components
  • Create contractual framework and implement contracts with supplier partners and derive contract language with oversight and support from internal legal counsel
  • Negotiate contracts including pricing, pricing adjustments, Terms and Conditions, Long Term Agreement, Supplier Quality Agreement, Warranty Agreement, and Aftermarket Agreement with supplier partners
  • Lead cost optimization initiatives including, but not limited to, VAVE, de-contenting, and alternative materials
  • Collaborate with cross-functional business partners on a broad range of supplier related topics such as: project deliverables, capacity planning, manufacturing efficiencies, cash flow optimization, import customs and duties compliance, logistic route optimization, and warehousing
  • Drive data transparency to support fact-based negotiations to deliver cost target risk assessment and mitigation activities
  • Perform bottom-up planning for commodity and supplier-related material costs including, raw material, foreign exchange rate, and other costs such as energy and labor
  • Derive, negotiate, and implement risk mitigation initiatives with supplier partners

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or other relevant field with at least 5 years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to utilize analytical tools for supplier evaluation and selection
  • Strategic orientation, willingness to learn, adapt & be agile, comfort in challenging norms, dealing with ambiguity
  • Problem solver with a solution-focused mindset
  • Experience in analyzing economic and market issues that affect material costs
  • General technical understanding of powertrain technologies and relevant component features, materials, production processes, and cost structures
  • Ability to travel domestically & internationally; 10-20% travel should be expected
  • Exceptional Candidates Might Have
  • Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management
  • Familiarity with Engine or Axle components
  • Experience working with global suppliers and managing a supply base across different regions and cultures
  • Experience creating and negotiating contractual framework and supporting legal case preparation and argumentation
  • Prior Purchasing, Cost Engineering, or Finance experience
  • Business level proficiency with a foreign language- specifically German or Spanish
Benefits
  • annual bonus program
  • 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age
  • starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
  • 13+ calendar holidays
  • 8 weeks paid parental leave
  • employee assistance program
  • comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
  • onsite fitness (at some locations)
  • tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off
  • short-term and long-term disability plans
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
supplier evaluationcost modelsbenchmarkingcompetitive global sourcingvalue chain analysiscontract negotiationcost optimizationVAVEdata transparencycommodity planning
Soft Skills
communication skillsstrategic orientationproblem solvingadaptabilityagilitysolution-focused mindsetcollaborationnegotiationanalytical thinkingdealing with ambiguity