Advanced Purchaser (erse) in Ulm bei Continental

Within the Business Area Autonomous Mobility, you will get in touch with our brand-new technologies which have the overall goal to save lives. It's our inner conviction that our job is making a difference and creates value.

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 participates in the material strategy development derived from the BA technology roadmap and translate this in a tangible strategy input for category management.

Your tasks include the following responsibilities:

• Product development process
  • Controlling the supplier-related milestones during the product development phase as well as the change management process for components
  • Ensuring involvement of suppliers at an early development phase, as well as maintaining and documenting supplier and material status
• Component Sourcing and Supplier Selection
  • Leading the sourcing team, tracking of sourcing planning and execution from kick-off to supplier nomination
  • Driving the sourcing to achieve best cost and quality, as well as meeting all project milestones
  • Safeguard supplier risk exposure related to well-known risk clusters (geo-hazard, geopolitical, financial, technical, supply)
  • Tracking component development and validation until successful SOP
• Achieve Best Cost Bill-of-Material from Acquisition Phase to SOP
  • Commercial responsibility for the material costs of the BA products, generate and maintain bill of material (BOM) view
  • Actively participating in design-to-cost activities during product concept/development phase
• Driving Cost Optimization after SOP
  • Initiate or supporting redesign-to-cost (ReDTC) or cost reduction programs (CRP) for products after SOP
  • Evaluating cost optimization ideas
• Material Strategy Development
  • Translating the product/technology roadmap into component/technology roadmap
  • Conducting strategy reviews with main categories to identify needs for actions, white spots and supplier development activities.
  • Initiating scouting activities together with category management

• Academic degree in Engineering, Applied Science, Applied Economics or similar qualification
• Several years of relevant professional experience in Purchasing, preferable within the Automotive industry
• Business fluent English language skills (written and spoken)
• Experience in working with international teams on purchasing issues
• High passion and proactive working style
• Strong negotiation and project management skills
• Strong intercultural competence

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

• Our products save lives. We offer you an interesting and varied job as part of a motivated team at one of the largest suppliers to the automotive industry
• Exciting, varied projects in our high-tech customer environment
• We set great value to a pleasant working atmosphere, characterized by professional and personal appreciation, in which mutual support is a matter of course
• Extensive design options and independent work in an international work environment characterized by flat hierarchies
• Numerous career opportunities and the rapid assumption of responsibility, in line with our four corporate values of passion to win, trust, freedom and for one another
• Attractive regions to live and work directly on Lake Constance, in the country or in the cosmopolitan city with a heart

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Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The Automotive group sector comprises technologies for passive safety, brake, chassis, motion and motion control systems. Innovative solutions for assisted and aut