Job Summary:
Purchasing Manager will manage purchasing activities and lead the category team, including developing purchasing strategies, maintaining positive relationships with suppliers, coordinating with internal teams regarding their supply needs, and overseeing the purchasing team in their daily activities.This individual will manage and effectively communicate timelines for all purchasing activities to meet project milestones and purchasing deliverables. The position will act as functional lead, supporting a development process and work in close collaboration with program management, engineering, quality, business development, and manufacturing.
Responsibilities:
- Full Budgetary responsibility of new and current projects, including cost estimation for BOM, Tooling, NRE, and CAPEX production costing of BOM, Tooling, NRE, and CAPEX target setting and alignment with cross-functional stakeholders to improve product profitability.
- Represent ABS purchasing organization in the project team meetings, feedback based on collaboration with Category Purchasing Leads on open topics and project launch status.
- Set up the sourcing plans and advance purchasing tracking, including timing and activities together with the PM team and execute responsibilities to the Category Purchasing Leads.
- Escalation support on pricing negotiations and disputes with Suppliers.
- Lead CAPEX expenditures within the organization, including alignment with the Operations and Manufacturing Executive Management.
- Direct Category Purchasing Leads to establish category strategies, including 5-year planning for strategic category management.
- Support Purchasing Director in implementation of policies, processes, and procedures for the department.
- Support Purchasing Director in establishing KPIs for the purchasing organization and track status and closure based on input of the Category Purchasing Leads.
- Support Purchasing Director and SQE(s) in establishing a quantitative supplier scorecard.
- Establish Supplier Business Review Meeting with Executive Management team at ABS.
- Train all Category Purchasing leads on new policies, processes, and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Predictable and reliable attendance.
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Supply Chain Management.
- Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
- In-depth problem-solving abilities and an entrepreneurial spirit, ready to jump in when needed.
- Solid negotiation skills and ability to move discussions forward toward mutually beneficial agreements.
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team setting.
- Extensive knowledge in tooling, components, and contract negotiations.
- Excellent organization and time management skills required to keep programs on time and within established budgets.
- Ability to communicate and make presentations to an audience effectively in a formal setting.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills and experience with ERP systems
Key Competencies:
- Encourages and Manages Innovation: Mines the creative ideas of others. Nurtures and manages the ideas that may improve processes, systems, products, or services.
- Influences Others: Has personal and organizational impact built on mutual trust, fairness, and honesty. Flexes their style to direct, collaborate, or empower as the situation requires.
- Delegates Effectively: Assigns work to others to maximize time for strategic thinking and actions. Provides clear guidelines, monitors, redirects, and sets limits as needed. Provides challenging assignments, shares authority, and provides resources and support.
- Decision Making & Analysis: Makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of data-driven analysis, expertise, experience, and judgment; collects relevant information, seeks input from others, and identifies connections and/or root causes of problems.
- Continual Improvement: Displays a consistent orientation toward producing the highest quality products or services while keeping a focus on sustainability. Constantly looking for incremental improvements in work processes and results.
- Develops and Manages Employees: Actively develops knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees to leverage high performance.
- Delivers Results: Achievement-oriented, feeling a sense of urgency to reach goals on time, if not before.
Physical Requirements / Working Conditions:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office equipment.
- Ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration on a computer screen.
- May need to lift and carry up to 30 pounds and/or position the body to reach items on the floor/below knee level or reach overhead.
- The person in this position needs to occasionally move about in industrial environments and on uneven terrain.
- Works in a temperature-controlled office environment, with occasional work in outdoor weather conditions and in industrial environments.
- The noise level in the work environment can be moderately loud.
Why Join Us
American Battery Solutions (ABS) provides comprehensive 100% employer paid benefit plans to employees and their family, competitive salary and retirement program. ABS employs a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Benefits Overview
- Paid time off includes 4 weeks, 15 holidays, and parental leave.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) offerings.
- Company provided 401K savings plan with immediately vested matching contributions to help you save for retirement.
- Voluntary benefits offerings.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee Referral Program.
- Employee development and career growth opportunities.
About Us
American Battery Solutions Inc. (“ABS”) is a manufacturer of advanced batteries for commercial, fleet, and industrial on- and off-road vehicles. Located in the heart of the U.S. automotive region with facilities in Michigan and Ohio. In 2023, ABS was acquired by Komatsu, a world leader in construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment in support of Komatsu’s 2050 carbon neutrality goal. ABS continues to operate as an independent entity serving Komatsu applications while continuing to expand and grow our core commercial, fleet and industrial business.
As we have grown, ABS has assembled a world-class team of dedicated and experienced engineers. This team is equipped with a deep understanding of high-voltage, automotive-grade battery systems from concept development and prototyping, to testing and validation, to high-volume production. We pride ourselves on developing a diverse team of next generation battery experts.
The Location - Lake Orion
American Battery Solutions Headquarters and Innovation Center is located in the heart of South-East Michigan in Orion Township. Orion Township is a Pure Michigan Trail Town that has a long-standing dedication to enhancing trails and pathways in its community, which is home to the Polly Ann Trail, Paint Creek Trail, and Iron Belle Trail. The township boasts more than 50 miles of trails. Whether your interest is in furthering your education, enjoying one of the many regional sporting events, or enjoying the vast outdoors that Michigan has to offer, you’ll be at the center of it here!
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