Supply Chain Purchasing Champ

**Ford Champs **looks forward to providing you with key knowledge and significant experiences for your professional career. This is a great platform to connect with leadership, collaborate with professionals in many areas of the business and learn more about our Ford full time opportunities. Throughout this program, there are many opportunities to gain insight and exposure to our business that will last a lifetime.

**Ford Champs **will allow to get to now different business areas through 12 to 24 months, while you improve your skills and become a better professional.

As a **Supply Chain Purchasing Ford Champ **you will play a pivotal role in optimizing the end-to-end supply chain process. Responsible for one or more commodity, will support strategy, negotiations and build relationships with suppliers to ensure cost-effectiveness and quality.

**What you´ll need**:

- Active student from any of the last 4 semesters of Mechatronics, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, International Business or Business Administration.
- 90% English skills (Oral, reading, writing, and listening)
- Time and data management skills
- Good communication skills, negotiation skills desirable
- Proficient with numbers and data analysis

**What you´ll do**:

- Support development and execution of supply base/commodity strategies
- Interact and create strong relationship with cross functional teams to deliver common objectives (cost, timing, quality)
- Support delivery of strong data analysis that lead to positive business decisions and robust tracking of price changes through life of the program/project
- Support Lead sourcing processes to deliver best in class value, diverse supply base and strong business relationships with suppliers.