Advanced Purchaser Electronics (m/f/d)

Company Description

Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87,000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

Job Description

Advanced Purchasing (AP) is the purchasing representative from acquisition phase through the product development starting with the concept phase until SOP and support  purchasing activities in series production. AP is leading the planning and execution of component sourcing and act as the interface to the purchasing categories. AP actively participate in the material strategy development derived from the SAM BA technology roadmap and translate this in a tangible strategy input for category management. 

Main tasks:

• Control the supplier-related milestones during the product development phase with on-time component sourcing.
• Ensure involvement of suppliers at an early development phase (e.g. ESI) if requested (concept phase).
• Maintain and document supplier and material status (e.g. for Gate Reviews).
• Drive and control the change management process for components towards the suppliers, categories and SQM until SOP.
• Lead the sourcing team in accordance to the automotive sourcing process, tracking of sourcing planning and execution from kick-off to supplier nomination.
• Drive the sourcing to achieve best cost and quality ( capacity ), meeting all project milestones, to guarantee supplier nomination at PLC gate 55.
• Send request for quotation to selected suppliers, order B/C component samples, support category purchasing in negotiations.
• Safeguard supplier risk exposure related to well-known risk clusters (geo-hazard, geo-political, financial, technical, supply).
• Create and maintain sourcing documentation until official nomination (eSign).
• Track component development and validation together with SQM until successful SOP.
• Ensure a smooth and comprehensive hand-over to plant purchasing latest at PLC gate 80.
• Initiate or support redesign-to-cost (ReDTC) or cost reduction programs (CRP) for BA products after SOP.
• Evaluate cost optimization ideas together with Engineering and prepare decision paper.
• Tracking of introduction of material-related ReDTC measures.
• Translate BA product/technology roadmap into component/technology roadmap.
• Conduct strategy reviews with main categories to identify needs for actions, white spots and supplier development activities.
• Initiate scouting activities together with category management (to close white spots).

Qualifications

• Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc.).
• Collaboration skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking).
• Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures.
• Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques.
• Project management skills, tools and techniques.
• Sourcing  Process  and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge.
• Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms.
• Risk Management.
• Technical understanding of specific components.
• Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.

Additional Information

What we offer:

Pay for Performance:

• Achievement Bonuses and Rewards;
• Recommendation Bonuses for new team members;
• Flexibility Program including flexible hours, mobile work and sabbaticals.

Wellbeing:

• Health & Wellness (Private Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Sport activities etc.);
• Different discounts (glasses, tires, medical, shopping);
• In-house restaurant & coffee corners.

Life-Long Learning:

• Dedicated Programs and Conferences;
• Free Language Courses (English, German, French etc);
• Access to e-learning platforms;
• Career development opportunities (local and international);
• Internal development communities (Experts, Agile Community of Practice, Artificial Intelligence etc). 

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