Negotiates pricing, facilitates purchases, and coordinates all activities required to purchase after sales parts and accessory commodities for NNA, NMEX and NLAC plants & Dealers. Locates and develops suppliers that can meet current and future production or non-production parts requirements. Ensures suppliers meet Nissan's goals for quality, cost and delivery. Coordinates with other departments to ensure an uninterrupted supply of parts to production lines and to solve supply problems. Maintains daily business support activities of department administrative support personnel.
**Key Responsibilities**:
1. Negotiates and establishes commodity prices for production parts. Handles assigned commodities. Ensures cost control in accordance with the Nissan revival plan cost reduction goals and requirements.
2. Locates suppliers and develops their abilities to meet current and future production parts requirements. Ensures suppliers meet Nissan's goals for quality, cost and delivery. Performs comparative analysis of competing suppliers to select most competitive source for a specified commodity.
3. Establishes contracts for assigned commodities; maintains purchase orders, and related purchasing records; maintains files and records of current and potential suppliers, materials and prices.
4. Coordinates activities between all departments and supplier base to ensure uninterrupted supply of parts and resolution of supply issues and problems.
5. Plans, develops, implements and maintains cost reduction plans in support of the department's cost reduction goals.
6. Coordinates all functions, procedures and system related concerns between NNA-National and NNA-Smyrna regarding service, accessory, remanufactured and key value parts.
7. Locates suppliers and negotiates for the procurement of facilities and MRO purchased items and services related to non-production purchasing.
8. As necessary, performs other related duties of which the above are representative.
**Education**:
Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. Consider equivalent related college or technical courses, seminars in-house classroom training.
**Previous work experience**:
Commerce/ Purchasing of direct material previous experience. (Desirable in the automotive industry)
**Required knowledge**:
Commodity and market knowledge. Commercial and legal regulations knowledge.
Basic knowledge of mfg processes involved in car parts (Stamping parts, Plastic Injection parts, etc).
**Language**:
Excellent English verbal and written communication skills. Fully bilingual.
**Computer skills**:
MS Office
SAP
**Competencies**:
- Strong problem-solving skills
- A creative approach for generating new ideas
- A sound knowledge of computer assisted design (CAD) software
- An excellent grasp of engineering and design principles
- An understanding of manufacturing processes
- Good team working skills
- An appreciation of wider business demands & awareness of the environmental impact of design ideas.
**Travel**:
Occasional day or overnight travel.
- **Nissan (NMEX,NEdM, NRFS, NRFM y ANZEN) realiza contrataciones con base al cumplimiento del perfil de puesto en la vacante, sin distinción (ni discriminación por género, identidad y/o expresión de género, orientación sexual, ) raza, color, idioma, religión, opinión política o de cualquier otra índole, origen nacional o social, posición económica, nacimiento o cualquier otra condición.**:
- **Nissan (NMEX,NEdM, NRFS, NRFM and ANZEN) hires based on the fulfillment of the job profile in the vacancy, without distinction or discrimination based on gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national or social origin, economic position, birth or any other condition.**
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