Senior Buyer - Program Purchasing
atZF (Thailand) Co., Ltd.| Chonburi, Thailand, ZF Automotive Safety Systems (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
About the Team
We are looking for a new colleague in Purchasing Team at our location in Chonburi.
What you can look forward to as Program Purchasing Senior Buyer:
- Lead program purchasing activities throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring on-time project delivery and launch readiness.
- Manage supplier capacity, performance, and risks, including capacity validation, supplier reviews, site visits, and early identification of project hazards.
- Coordinate sourcing and procurement strategy, maintaining advanced sourcing pipelines and supporting supplier selection for new products globally.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, SDE, Commodity Teams, Program Management, and NPI teams to achieve project objectives.
- Monitor engineering changes, BOM releases, and product lifecycle management, ensuring timely communication, planning, and execution.
- Manage APQP/PPAP activities and supplier quality requirements, ensuring components meet automotive, manufacturing, and customer standards.
- Control product cost performance, including target costing, cost reduction initiatives, tooling costs, amortization, scrap liability, and business case validation.
- Provide project reporting and stakeholder communication, delivering regular status updates to management, executive leadership, and project teams.
- Support commercial and customer requirements, including pricing, forecast management, inflation recovery, engineering change approvals, and cost recovery activities.
- Resolve operational and supply chain challenges, including supplier exits, resourcing plans, payable issues, and demand-capacity alignment.
Your Profile as Program Purchasing Senior Buyer:
- Degree in Engineering/ Technology or Business Commercial subject.
- Minimum 3years in 1st tier automotive business candidate to be considered
- Good in the English language especially spoken communication.
- Typical 5-8 years in a purchasing role.
- Working in and preferable leading multi-functional project teams.
Why you should choose ZF?
- Individual Growth: At ZF, you accelerate your career by working together across borders and cultures. Take advantage of global development opportunities, support and a flexible working environment.
- Experience Variety: Join ZF to shape future mobility and sustainable systems. Drive smart solutions and contribute to safer, cleaner, affordable mobility for all.
- Find Inspiration: Develop yourself in a team-oriented and supportive environment at ZF. Take on international challenges, be inspired by your colleagues and shape the future with us.
Be part of our ZF team as Senior Buyer - Program Purchasing and apply now!
Contact
Jinyan Zhuang
Experience required
- 5 years
Career level
- Senior Level
Salary
- Negotiable
Job function
- Purchasing
- Supply Chain
Job type
- Full-time
Company overview
ZF is a German technology group headquartered in Friedrichshafen, founded in 1915. It makes drive train and chassis technology for automotive, commercial vehicle, rail, marine and aviation markets.
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