**Position summary**
Work in relationship with internal clients and experts in the field, participate in the development of the specifications of need, suggest purchases, adapted in relation to the purchases strategies of CSA, for each project.
Prepare national or international consultations, make evaluations of bids from the suppliers, negotiate and make agreement with suppliers.
Track and respect the costs; quality and deadlines for the project until passage in life serie and
track project validation phase.
**Essential responsibilities, duties and authority**
- To negotiate the prices and conditions in cooperation with the commodity buyer
- To answer to the product manager for the RFQ from the customers, if needed
- To be involved in the project, kick of meeting, projects reviews
- Compile CS' customer RFQ information to create suppliers' RFQs (with eng, cost est., sales support)
- to manage the RFQ to the suppliers in compliance with the strategy and the approved supplier panel
- Send RFQ to Customer Directed Sources
- Answer Supplier RFQ Questions regarding Program Information
- To negotiate the main conditions, costs (parts, protos, tools), quality, lead time
- Compile Supplier RFQ Information and Provide to Cost Estimating
- Receipt of New Program Award from Sales
- Component Risk Assessment
- Supplier Pre-Award Meeting and Follow-up
- To prepare the presentation to the sourcing committee
- To manage the follow up of the projects with the suppliers
- To create and up date the project dash boards
- To request to the logistic, the orders for prototypes, tools, Off tools components, preserial
- To manage the technical evolutions of the components, new design and so on
- To manage the switch from project to mass production (PSW)
- To manage the local IATF audit or customer audits or SOX audit for the program purchasing activities
**Required knowledge/education, qualification/ability** and/or experience**
- Experience in the field of procurement and logistics and industrial for an internal recruitment
- 3 years experience including 2 years in contact with suppliers for an external recruitment
- Negotiation
- Good communication skills
- Management of projects
- Knowledge of the Juridical bases of Commercial activities
- Dipl. Ing. or Bachelor/Master Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Plastics Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
- Fluent in English, additional European languages are valued
**Required soft skills**
Problem solving.
Negotiation skills
High communication skills
**Work environment/ work conditions**
- Office working conditions
- Ability to travel
- Home office possible