Procurement VAVE Specialist

Responsibilities About Strattec:

At Strattec, we’re reshaping how people experience and interact with their vehicles by making access seamless, secure, and safe. In partnership with leading OEMs, we design and deliver highly engineered solutions that create the ultimate access experience for consumers.

What sets us apart is how we work and the people who make it happen. Guided by our culture pillars, Think New, Do Together, and Own It, we collaborate across disciplines and take ownership of meaningful challenges. Our people bring new ideas to life and turn ambition into impact. If you’re an integrator, problem solver, or forward thinker who wants to do work that matters, you’ll find the opportunity here to grow your craft and contribute to something bigger that shapes the future of the automotive industry.

Ready to help shape the future of access? Join us  Responsibilities:

Ideation & Teardowns:
Lead physical product teardowns and competitive benchmarking workshops to identify cost-out opportunities (e.g., material substitution, weight reduction, process optimization).Business Case Development:
Calculate the financial feasibility of optimization ideas, factoring in implementation costs, modification charges (MOD), tooling updates, and payback periods.

Cross-Functional Orchestration:
Coordinate validation testing between Quality, Engineering, and Procurement to ensure ideas are approved without risking product performance.

Supplier-Led

Innovation: Facilitate VAVE workshops directly with key suppliers to uncover cost savings hidden in their manufacturing tiers or raw material supply chains.

Project Management:
Track a portfolio of cost-out projects from raw idea through testing, regulatory approval, and factory implementation [VAVE Project Manager].Manage complex, multi-team technical programs with multiple interconnected work streams from kickoff through deployment.

Translate product requirements into technical roadmaps, technical milestones, and engineering deliverables.

Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks, technical bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they impact delivery dates.

Own the program schedule, establishing realistic milestones, managing technical dependencies, and driving accountability across engineering squads.

Participate in technical design reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term infrastructure goals.

Facilitate technical trade-off decisions between engineering and product teams, balancing speed-to-market against technical debt.

Enforce engineering excellence standards, ensuring appropriate testing, code quality, security protocols, and documentation are integrated into the program lifecycle.

Communication & Stakeholder Alignment Serve as the primary technical point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Security, Compliance, and executive leadership.

Synthesize complex technical status reports into clear, actionable executive updates, translating engineering metrics into business impacts.

Lead post-mortems and root-cause analyses (RCA) for program failures or major deployment incidents to drive continuous process improvement.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a hybrid technical-commercial field. Certification in Value Engineering (e.g., CVS or VMA) is highly preferred.

Experience:

4–6 years managing technical cost-reduction or continuous improvement programs in a high-volume production sector (e.g., automotive, consumer electronics)

Skills:

Value engineering methodologies, financial acumen (ROI/TCO analysis), and strong project management capabilities.

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