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Owns strategic automotive customer relationships and profitable growth for assigned accounts. Leads quoting strategy, pricing and commercial negotiations, account planning, sales pipeline management, and new business acquisition. Coordinates cross-functional teams and global counterparts to support OEM customers, provide market intelligence, resolve commercial issues, and ensure compliance with company policies and regional regulations. The role is primarily office-based, includes occasional manufacturing visits, and requires up to 25% travel.

Designs and improves automotive manufacturing processes, particularly extrusion operations. Leads troubleshooting, product trials, continuous improvement, scrap reduction, OEE improvement, process capability, APQP, PFMEA, quality-system compliance, tooling reviews, supplier coordination, new product launches, and cost-reduction initiatives. Supports standardized work, preventative maintenance, production training, time studies, process documentation, and cross-functional projects while ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and productivity goals.

Supports HR programs including compensation and benefits, labor relations, performance management, training, development, staffing, and recruitment. Responds to employee questions about HR policies, identifies and resolves grievances, and counsels employees on work-related and personal issues.

Sources and purchases parts and services, selects and manages suppliers, negotiates purchase orders, develops commodity strategies, monitors supplier performance, and drives cost improvements. The Buyer coordinates sourcing and launch activities, maintains item master data, supports engineering changes, analyzes supply and market data, reports savings and supplier performance, and builds supplier relationships. The role requires collaboration with internal stakeholders and occasional travel to suppliers.

Supports high-volume recruiting for an automotive manufacturing facility by posting jobs, screening applications, scheduling interviews, communicating with candidates, maintaining ATS records, tracking recruiting metrics, preparing onboarding documentation, supporting orientation and recruiting events, and ensuring compliance with employment policies. The intern also assists with employer branding and interacts with candidates, employees, and hiring managers in a fast-paced plant environment.

Leads global purchasing governance and contract strategy across regions and business units. Responsibilities include developing contract standards, driving digital and AI-enabled contract management, supporting negotiations, monitoring compliance KPIs, leading cross-functional implementation projects, strengthening supply chain decision-making, and mitigating supplier, financial, geopolitical, sustainability, and commercial risks. The role partners with Legal, Finance, Sales, and Procurement stakeholders and requires global leadership, analytical expertise, German and English fluency, and up to 30% business travel.

Lead digital transformation across operational and administrative functions by analyzing and optimizing end-to-end processes, identifying automation opportunities, translating business needs into digital solutions, and coordinating implementations. Responsibilities include business-case development, project planning, testing, rollout, change management, training, documentation, and stakeholder coordination, including Microsoft Power Platform low-code solutions.

Leads SAP implementations, rollouts, upgrades, migrations, support, and continuous improvement across North American manufacturing operations. Manages project plans, budgets, schedules, risks, stakeholders, consultants, data migration, testing, training, and go-live activities. Provides SAP functional guidance across manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, finance, and operations while supporting integrations and troubleshooting. Requires extensive travel and strong experience with SAP, automotive manufacturing, multi-site deployments, and end-to-end business processes.

Lead manufacturing automation initiatives from concept through implementation. Design, program, troubleshoot, and optimize PLC, HMI, SCADA, robotics, vision, motion control, and industrial network systems. Drive Industry 4.0, smart factory, continuous improvement, safety, quality compliance, and capital projects. Serve as the plant automation subject matter expert, establishing standards, mentoring personnel, managing suppliers, and supporting multi-site deployments.

Supports automotive quality engineering activities, including PPAP and APQP tracking, plant trials, launch and warranty issue resolution, control plans, receiving inspection instructions, work instructions, PFMEA and BOM reviews, containment systems, pre-production builds, and 8D investigations. The role also assists with customer quality concerns, in-process testing, and documentation linkage reviews.