DirecciónProcurement Project Manager
San Luis Potosi, MX, 78395
Objective of the position
- Planning, managing and controlling national and international vehicle projects as Project Manager Procurement, ensuring adherance from the supply network to the economic aspects and budgets of the carlines, which are defined from acquistion to series production in accordance to the customer and/or project requirements.
- Responsible for the interface from the supply market to the DRX project organization.
- Managing and controlling of vehicle projects from category A (1 project), B (1-2 projects) or several technical projects from category C or several sub-projects.
- Project Planning and Controlling: Responsible for the organizational structure of the special project, particularly resource planning as per agreement with the supervisor. Ensuring the compilation and control of budget planning and/or the costs of the special project. Responsible for setting up and following up the overall special project schedule, including the detail plan to determine and monitor milestones. Ensuring that the SEP-related milestones are worked out on schedule. Taking strategic crash barriers to make-or-buy decisions, determining locations or technology specifications into consideration.
- Target costing: Ensuring cost estimates by way of market evaluations or internal calculations in the acquisition phase. Responsible for coordinating, agreeing on and achieving the cost targets for the defined purchased volumes within the scope of managing the process of target costs. Monitoring the cost drivers by making target-actual comparisons. Taking action in the event of deviations from the target, if necessary by escalating through the key Project Manager and/or the line functions.
- Supplier Selection Process: Responsible for on-schedule handling of the supplier selection and supplier decision process as per agreement with the responsible Commodity Buyer and other Project Leaders. Prior to that, ensuring the appropriate specifications, data or Specifications Requirements for the inquiry process.
- Change Management: Ensuring that changes are worked off on schedule as an active representative of the project. Direct interface to the change coordinator and participant in the change talks.
- Cost negotiations: To ensure and gather all targets for the commodity buyer to negotiate with the supplier, with regard to external defect costs such as complaint costs, field failures and series damage, and logistical mistakes.
Requirements:
Professional career: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or other technical related field.
Relevant experience: 3-5 years in Particle application of project management techniques (timelines, budgeting, product and process maturity, etc.), Good understanding of the Automotive development and part qualification processes, Strong understanding of performance based metrics and Proven problem solver.
Technical knowledge: Project Management Standards (PMI, PMP, etc.), In-depth knowledge of Automotive and Quality standards, MS Office and Advanced English.
