Senior Corporate Buyer (AE

Southfield, Michigan, USA (Corporate) and AEM Operations, Mexico

Direct Reports

None (functional mentorship of buyers)

FLSA Status

Travel

Up to 20%, domestic and international

Job Purpose

The Senior Corporate Buyer leads strategic sourcing and commercial management of assigned raw materials and manufactured components across Angstrom Electric's United States and Mexico operations. The role owns Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for its commodities — combining tactical procurement execution with supplier negotiation, commodity index management, trade and tariff risk mitigation, and cross-functional leadership in support of OEM program launches and ongoing production.

This is a corporate role with dual-site accountability. The incumbent serves a single, unified supply base supporting the Southfield corporate office, the AEM manufacturing operations in Mexico, and the Company's El Paso and third-party warehouse network — ensuring commercial terms, index formulas, and supplier performance standards are applied consistently on both sides of the border.

Scope and Working Relationships

Dimension & Definition

Geographic scope

United States (Southfield corporate) and Mexico (AEM manufacturing operations); supports El Paso bonded warehouse and third-party logistics providers.

Commodity scope

Assigned direct materials — including copper and tin-indexed commodities, wire and cable, terminals and connectors, molded and stamped components, plating services — and assigned indirect categories.

Accountable for annual spend and cost-savings targets assigned by the Supply Chain / Purchasing Manager; material cost represents the largest single element of Company cost structure.

Internal partners

Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Operations, Finance / Costing, Materials and Logistics, Customs and Trade Compliance, and site leadership at each AEM plant.

External partners

Domestic, Mexican, and international suppliers; customs brokers; freight forwarders; and, where required, OEM customer purchasing counterparts.

Company Expectation of Employee

• Excels in problem solving, analysis, and leadership without direct authority.
• Adheres to Company policies and procedures and to all applicable US and Mexican legal and trade-compliance requirements.
• Acts as a role model for the Company's standards of ethics and integrity, both internally and with the supply base.
• Performs duties as workload necessitates and maintains a positive, respectful, and collaborative attitude across cultures and locations.
• Communicates regularly and transparently with management regarding departmental issues, supply risks, and cost exposure.
• Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and the ability to prioritize competing workloads across two countries and multiple sites.
• Consistently reports to work on time and prepared to perform the duties of the position.
• Meets or exceeds department productivity and accuracy standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Commodity Index Management. Own the integrity of copper and tin index pass-through across the supply base. Ensure supplier index formulas, benchmark source, and lag convention are aligned to the Company's customer-side agreements so that no index leakage occurs in either direction. Validate index adjustments each period and reconcile to system pricing.
• Global Market Intelligence and Cost Mitigation. Monitor US and Mexico tariff environments, USMCA and IMMEX/Annex 24 requirements, global trade regulation, and commodity markets. Analyze the effect of macroeconomic and policy shifts on landed cost and proactively develop mitigation strategies to protect margin.
• Strategic Sourcing and RFQ Management. Lead sourcing strategy and negotiation with domestic, Mexican, and international suppliers. Manage…