Product Launch Buyer

Borg Warner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work and amazing technology in a unique environment. At Borg Warner, we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy‑efficient world.

Borg Warner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration. We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority.

Responsibilities for the Product Launch Buyer include supplier evaluation, estimating and tracking cost metrics to budget for the Bill of Materials (BOMs), supplier sourcing, driving the supplier timeline, and securing component sourcing approval and deliveries through PPAP approval. This role requires working closely with supplier representatives as well as internal team members such as Product and/or Applications Engineers, Design Engineers, Supplier Development Engineers (SDE), and Global Supply Chain Managers.

• Sourcing and procurement activities for programs to meet program timing and commercial targets under the direction of the Supply Chain Supervisor/Manager.
• Prepares RFQ’s, summarizes, and presents quotations for prototype and production supply.
• Developing strategy and timing for procurement of new components to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Identifying, developing, and qualifying new suppliers to achieve program goals.
• Supporting supplier risk assessment evaluations and mitigation actions.
• Adhering to commodity strategies (global & local).
• Reporting progress against KPI metrics to measure progress against goals.
• Aligning sourcing to the global guidelines.
• Follows the supplier selection process to identify and recommend optimal source selection considering criteria such as value, risk, sustainability, quality, and delivery.
• Presenting proposals to a global sourcing review board or a local committee and strategies to management and leadership.
• Interfaces with suppliers to optimize value and feasibility by interpreting feedback on specifications and blueprints to align with engineering needs. Communicates proposed changes to stakeholders.
• Presenting component design proposals and feasibility feedback from suppliers to engineering to obtain optimum value.
• Procuring pre‑production samples and approval samples (First Article of PPAP) and driving suppliers to meet program requirements.
• Performing a lead role for Supply Chain to compile Program Gate Review content which would include communicating status to Program Management and launch team from Supplier Development and/or Supplier Quality, Global Commodity Management, Risk Management, and other Supply Chain support functions.
• Coordinates design and technical review for new components in preparation for sourcing.
• Facilitates reviews of component and feasibility feedback from suppliers with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Logistics, and back to suppliers to optimize cost and manufacturability.
• Estimates costs for new components using existing component and supplier data.
• Develops and maintains costed BOMs and maintains history of BOM cost.
• Sends and tracks Request for Quotes (RFQs) for prototype and production incorporating global and local sourcing strategies.
• Estimates and maintains a tooling budget per program.
• Issues tooling purchase orders (PO) for tooling.
• Assures tooling documentation has been received prior to releasing payment to the vendor per the Supplier Manual procedure.
• Considers cost of logistics in value stream mapping for source selections.
• Works with Finance to monitor blocked invoices to assure vendors are paid in a timely manner.
• Negotiates complex contracts and critical long‑term agreements for new production components.
• Develops new suppliers that meet BW cost, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Coordinates and facilitates supplier relationship with internal functions.
• Provides status updates for Program Gate Reviews and other intermediate reviews, which can…