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As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success. Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.
Job Responsibility
Strategic Leadership: Define and implement the North American purchasing strategy aligned with global commodity and business objectives. Drive long-term value creation through cost optimization, supplier innovation, and risk mitigation
Organizational Leadership & Talent Development: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing purchasing organization. Design organizational structure, workforce planning, and succession strategies
Sourcing & Supplier Strategy: Oversee all regional sourcing activities (direct and indirect) ensuring alignment with global commodity strategies. Establish and maintain a competitive, resilient, and sustainable supply base
Supplier Performance & Quality: Ensure suppliers meet expectations in quality, delivery, cost, innovation, and financial stability. Strengthening supplier development and risk management frameworks
Commercial & Contract Governance: Oversee and support negotiations for high-value and strategic contracts. Ensure all supplier agreements meet legal, compliance, and corporate governance standards
Financial Management: Own regional purchasing budgets and deliver against cost-saving and value-improvement targets
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with regional plants, business divisions, and global purchasing leadership. Act as key interface between North America and global headquarters
Operational Excellence & Process Governance: Ensure adherence to global purchasing processes, systems, and policies. Drive continuous improvement and digitalization of purchasing processes (e.g., SAP, analytics tools)
Innovation & Sustainability: Promote supplier-driven innovation and early supplier involvement. Support sustainability, ESG, and responsible sourcing initiatives
Risk Management: Lead proactive supply chain risk identification and mitigation strategies. Ensure business continuity planning across critical suppliers and commodities
Requirements
Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university and a graduate degree desired
More than 10 years experience in the automotive industry
Personal / social competencies: Communication skills, decision making ability, power of conviction, ability to work under pressure, positive attitude to new experiences and change
General understand and awareness of functional competencies (e.g. legal aspects of purchasing, concept of material group, supply chain management) is required
IT skills: MS Office, SAP
Leadership skills
Fluent written and spoken English
What we offer
competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance
attractive social and family-oriented programs
comprehensive medical and insurance
educational assistance
a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events
Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment
a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths