Product Launch Buyer

Position

Product Launch Buyer

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Arden, NC

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.

We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and vision for the future. We offer positions locally and globally with over 80 locations in 19 countries.

If this position energizes you and you feel you can help us achieve our mission and vision, you are invited to submit an application for consideration.

You may see the list of requirements and feel you do not meet all of them. However, remember that Borg Warner thinks differently. If your qualifications align with the majority of those outlined in this job description, we encourage you to apply and share your experience and skills with us.

For a listing of Asheville/Arden openings:
Borg Warner Openings

The Borg Warner Arden campus offers two world class technical centers and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility that designs and produces turbos, fan, and fan drive components for the automotive industry. The Arden campus offers a multitude of career opportunities and is in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.

• 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 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 include assisting or participating in presentations to the leadership team.
• Leads supplier selection meetings and presents recommended supplier.
• Support the We Are Ready launch audits.
• Conforms to the…