Procurement Sourcing Specialist
Honda South Carolina Manufacturing · Raymond, OH · 1 mo ago
PurchasingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the description.
First paragraph: "What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision..." This is about company vision. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is generic. The description includes job purpose and key accountabilities. So we can have sections: About the role (maybe summarizing vision?), Responsibilities (key accountabilities), Qualifications, Experience, And Skills (maybe combine into Qualifications and Skills). Benefits: there is a "Total Rewards" section with details. Pay: mention "Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables...)" and "Paid Overtime", "Regional Bonus". Schedule: maybe not explicit; there is travel and overtime but not schedule. Could include "Working Conditions" with travel, physical, hazards, overtime. That could be Schedule? Not exactly. The instruction: include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. There's no explicit schedule like "full-time", "shift". So we should not create Schedule.
Pay: we have compensation details: Competitive Base Salary, Paid Overtime, Regional Bonus. So we can create Pay section.
Benefits: we have "Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx) Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution Relocation assistance (if eligible) Career Growth Advancement Opportunities Career Mobility Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning Training and Development programs Additional Offerings Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment Lifestyle Account Childcare Reimbursement Account Elder Care Support Wellbeing Program Community Service and Engagement Programs Product Programs". So we can create Benefits section with list.
Qualifications: "Bachelors Degree or equivalent in related field 0+ years related work experience preferably in Powersports or Automotive field Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills Must be able to operate with high level of confidentiality General knowledge of cost, budget and/or financial information management Strong analytical skills (logical through process, reasonability, timeliness) Time management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills (logical thought process, reasonability, timeliness) Effective negotiation skills and the ability to summarize key issues for management review Develop innovative approaches to reduce costs and improve efficiency Knowledge of SxS and ATV market Ability to read blue prints and understand specification requirements Strong written and verbal communication skills". That's qualifications and skills combined. We could split into Qualifications (education, experience) and Skills (the rest). But we can also combine into one Qualifications section. The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. That's five sections.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include Job ID etc. Not present.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO statement at end. Remove that.
Also remove duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include everything from description except boilerplate.
Let's extract substantive content:
- Opening vision paragraph: "What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.” We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team. If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!"
That's about company and role. Could go under About the role.
- Job Purpose: "Procurement Sourcing Specialist must work with others to competitively bid outsourced parts amongst suppliers to realize the best value to the company for providing components of Powersports vehicle production. Evaluate responses and make decisions on sourcing selection to support the business direction, maintain positive business relationship with the suppliers, and exercise signature commitment authority in accordance with corporate guidelines."
- Key Accountabilities: list of bullet-like sentences. We'll convert to
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List items:
1. Represent Honda with minimal supervision in interactions with suppliers to request, review, negotiate, and approve quotations that contribute to setting the production costs of global ATV & SxS new models and mass production vehicles.
2. Deliver results that consistently meet defined cost targets.
3. Prepare cost analyses and effectively negotiate with suppliers/designers, using the support of Cost Technical Experts, to contribute to target achievement.
4. Execute supplier / part / commodity tactics under the direction of Cost Technical Experts, to realize cost reduction, mitigation, avoidance and unit achievement of annual Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Morale (SQCDM) business plan objectives.
5. Propose maker layout selections to Cost Technical Experts by considering numerous factors including quality, cost, delivery, development, and management on a high volume of parts that result in determining which supplier will provide components for mass production.
6. Contribute occasionally to spec maturation with designer engineers by providing input on design changes that impact cost in order to provide critical part design at optimized cost.
7. Provide maximum support to team members; assist management in accomplishing special projects. As a special project arises, provides appropriate level of support based on management direction.
- Qualifications, Experience, And Skills: list as above.
We could split into Qualifications (education, experience) and Skills (rest). But we can keep as one Qualifications section with list.
- Working Conditions: Travel, Physical, Hazards, Overtime, Professional conduct. This could be placed under a section maybe "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings. Could be part of Responsibilities? Not exactly. Could be omitted? But we must preserve all substantive information. The allowed headings are limited; we could incorporate Working Conditions into Responsibilities or Benefits? Not appropriate. Perhaps we can create a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed list; instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings, but maybe we can also use other headings? The examples are given, but likely we should stick to those. However we need to preserve all substantive info; we could put Working Conditions under Responsibilities as part of role description. Or we could create a separate section "Requirements" maybe? But Requirements is for prerequisites. Working Conditions is not a requirement. Could be part of "About the role". Probably okay to include under About the role. Thus we will include Working Conditions details in About the role paragraph or as a list under About the role. - Total Rewards: we will put under Benefits and Pay. Benefits: list items. Pay: Competitive Base Salary, Paid Overtime, Regional Bonus. We need to avoid filler like "pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc." That's substantive; we keep. Now produce HTML. Structure:
About the role
... vision paragraph ...
Job Purpose: ...
Maybe we can combine job purpose into same paragraph. Better: About the role includes vision and job purpose. Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
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Qualifications
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Benefits
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Pay
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