NPI​/TPI Buyer

NPI/TPI Buyer

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a NPI/TPI Buyer.

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, the NPI/TPI Buyer role is responsible for leading procurement and supply chain activities related to New Product Introduction (NPI), Transfer Product Introduction (TPI), Engineering Changes (ECO), and End-of-Life (EOL) programs, ensuring material readiness, supplier performance, and successful product launches. This role works closely with cross-functional teams and suppliers to optimize cost, quality, delivery, and overall project execution while supporting customer requirements and business objectives.

What a typical day looks like:

• Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery, and cost.
• Scouting and supplier selection in line with divisional and local goals and policies.
• Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
• Helping value engineering exercises to improve the value/cost ratios of all parts.
• Manage supplier relations.
• Arrange correct documentation to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project.
• Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ).
• Maintenance the purchase price in the system and work off price differences in Baan.
• Adjusting in time the correct purchase price in the system and keep traceability upon.
• Be a permanent member of the Project team and assure hold up for the Procurement, if needed.
• Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
• Organize and monitor initial samples.
• Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
• Help and follow up production, corrective actions.
• In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
• Initiate required design modifications towards the Suppliers.
• Monitor the supply market in terms of technologies and costs.
• Keep connection with Suppliers.
• Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts.
• Manage EOL parts with buyers.
• Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV.
• In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within SC, CFT and with Customer (including Customer/Supplier visits/meetings and calls).
• Coordination and implementation of ECO changes within SC in accordance to Customer specific requirements, with strong focus on ECO related cost collection and reporting.
• Coordination transfers of new products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
• Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance with Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete, revaluation).
• Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
• In charge of/Co-ordination of preparing material RFQ, as applicable, (Request for quotation for new Bill Of Material and for all new Engineering Change Order /ECO), reviews and analyses new offers from suppliers.
• Controlling AMLs and maintaining T&C for new items (collecting and maintaining data, solving discrepancies with Customer, requests for deviations to Customer etc.).
• Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
• Managing changes in deliveries status according to accord rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
• Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
• Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications).
• Should have sufficient knowledge about preferred suppliers in relevant commodities.
• NPI
  - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
• TPI
  - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
• Proven experience in New Product Introduction (NPI) and Transfer Product Introduction (TPI) processes within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience in supplier management, including supplier coordination, performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Experience working with Cross-Functional Teams (CFTs), collaborating with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Program Management teams.
• Ability to support product launches, production transfers, and ramp-up activities while ensuring project milestones are achieved.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and project coordination skills.
• Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced English proficiency (written…