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Coordinates and manages the technical spare-parts warehouse for maintenance and production operations. Responsibilities include maintaining inventory and ERP data, conducting stock checks, interpreting technical documentation, creating spare-parts packages, labeling items with barcode and QR systems, supporting purchasing, placing orders, and coordinating with maintenance, production, IT, planning, and suppliers. The role also supports continuous process improvement and compliance with safety and environmental standards.

Sources and procures raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, and supplies for assigned product commodities. Develops and evaluates suppliers, conducts vendor visits, negotiates pricing, maintains appropriate inventory levels, and ensures uninterrupted production. Serves as a strategic liaison with suppliers to satisfy material requirements and customer release schedules.

Directs purchasing operations, including supplier selection, purchase orders, market analysis, contract compliance, commodity sourcing, supplier performance, cost reduction, and purchasing procedures. Supervises personnel, coordinates with internal departments and suppliers, establishes purchasing goals, addresses grievances, and ensures environmental, health, and safety compliance across purchasing activities.

The Operational Buyer ensures material availability for production by calculating requirements, processing ERP purchase orders, evaluating and negotiating supplier offers, tracking delivery dates, maintaining supplier and material master data, and supporting complaint resolution. The role also identifies potential suppliers and contributes to make-or-buy decisions. Strong German and English communication skills, ERP proficiency, technical understanding, and initial experience in purchasing, material planning, or supply chain are preferred.

Manage procurement activities for assigned automotive programs, oversee order processes and KPIs, negotiate with suppliers, support sourcing, risk assessment and cost-optimization (PKO/VAVE), and coordinate cross-functional procurement decisions to meet cost, timing and quality targets.

Manages customer service and automotive order fulfillment activities, including EDI and manual release entry, demand verification, shipping worksheet preparation, transportation and premium freight coordination, delivery performance, inventory queries, chargebacks, returnable containers, and customer communications. Coordinates with carriers, plants, production, quality, and engineering teams while providing after-hours and weekend support.

Develop and maintain production schedules based on demand, inventory, materials, capacity, and manufacturing constraints. Monitor production performance, adjust schedules, coordinate raw material availability, and communicate priorities across production teams. Analyze KPIs, support capacity planning and forecasting, maintain inventory accuracy, conduct cycle counts, generate reports, and participate in continuous improvement initiatives. Coordinate shipping, receiving, and hanger-cleaning timelines.

Responsible for purchasing prototype automotive seat components and tooling across assigned programs. Duties include supplier selection, competitive quoting, purchase orders, cost and timing negotiation, supplier performance evaluation, bill of materials coordination, commercial issue resolution, and audit support. The role collaborates with engineering, program management, quality, and suppliers to ensure prototype builds meet budget, timing, quality, and manufacturing requirements.

Supports bill-of-materials cost development, sourcing execution, RFQs, customer quotations, quote evaluation, sourcing decisions, supplier negotiations, cost modeling, and supplier relationship management for automotive electronics programs. Collaborates with purchasing, category, engineering, and supplier quality teams while tracking costs, resolving issues, and supporting continuous improvement.

Manages commercial relationships and procurement activities for assigned indirect categories. Responsibilities include supplier qualification and onboarding, contract and pricing negotiations, sourcing new suppliers, supplier performance evaluations, stakeholder collaboration, cost-saving initiatives, KPI tracking, and continuous improvement. The role also supports spot-buy orders for European technical centers and promotes competitive pricing, quality service, stable supply, and supplier performance.