Sr. Commodity Buyer
BorgWarner · Arden, NC · 1 mo ago
Purchasing$93k–$128k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About Us? Actually they said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content: About Us (company description). Could map to "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is about company, not role. But they gave examples; we can still use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About Us (company description) - could be placed under "About the role"? Might be better to have a section "About the role" containing description of role (Job Purpose). But they said do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we can have
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content: About Us (company description). Could map to "About the role"? Actually "About Us" is about company, not role. But they gave examples; we can still use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About Us (company description) - could be placed under "About the role"? Might be better to have a section "About the role" containing description of role (Job Purpose). But they said do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we can have About the role
with prose summarizing job purpose.
- Responsibilities: we have many bullet-like paragraphs under "ACCOUNTABILITIES" and "Key Responsibilities". We can extract list items.
- Requirements/Qualifications: we have "What We’re Looking For" with degree, experience, skills.
- Skills: could be separate but maybe combine with Requirements.
- Benefits: we have "Pay & Benefits" section with details: Day 1 Medical Coverage..., Onsite Health Clinic..., Dental, Vision..., Tuition Reimbursement..., Retirement Savings Plan..., Company paid holidays and vacation starting Day 1. Also Pay: they gave Salary Range $92,800 - $127,600. So we can have Pay section with that range. Benefits section with list.
- Schedule: not mentioned. So omit.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, scam disclaimer, etc.
We must preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like specific benefits, etc.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc.
We must output only HTML fragment.
Let's structure:
About the role
Job Purpose ... (the paragraph about BorgWarner Arden campus, role responsibilities high-level). Could combine with About Us? But we have separate About Us description of company. Could we include that as part of About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to have a separate "About the company" but not in allowed headings. Since they only gave examples, but we can use other headings? The instruction: "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples but we could use others? Safer to stick to those. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have About Us (company) maybe could go under About the role? But that is about company not role. However we could still put it there as prose about the role's context. It's okay.
Responsibilities: we have many responsibilities; we can list them as - .
Requirements: degree, experience, etc.
Qualifications: maybe same as Requirements; but we could separate: Requirements (experience, degree) and Qualifications (skills, certifications). But we need to avoid duplication.
Skills: maybe list specific skills like Microsoft Office, negotiation, etc.
Benefits: list.
Pay: salary range.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We have specific salary range.
Let's extract details.
From posting:
About Us: "BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for the vehicle market. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work, and amazing technology in a unique environment. At BorgWarner we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy-efficient world. Our Culture We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority. We care about our local communities and the global environment. BorgWarner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration. Career Opportunities We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Start your future with BorgWarner now! For a listing of Asheville/Arden openings BorgWarner Openings"
That's a lot; we can keep as prose.
Job Purpose: "The BorgWarner Arden campus offers two world class technical centers and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility that designs and produces turbos, fan, and fan drive components for the automotive industry. The Arden campus offers a multitude of career opportunities and is in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. The Buyer reports to the Purchasing Manager, as do other Buyers of various levels and responsibilities. This position is responsible for prioritizing, planning, scheduling, executing and coordinating all phases of assigned work. This position manages a full range of materials and services, as assigned, with responsibility for developing and maintaining excellent supplier relationships. In addition to direct responsibility for managing the supplier base, this position supports internal product and manufacturing teams on commercial issues and participates on division and corporate purchasing teams. The incumbent also contributes to the overall effectiveness of the materials department as a team member in negotiations and in providing assistance and direction to co-workers. The Buyer is empowered to act as an agent of the company and is given broad latitude to take action for the benefit of the organization. Due to the responsibilities of this position the incumbent must be a person of high integrity."
ACCOUNTABILITIES: "Develop and manage supply base for assigned commodities to achieve quality, delivery and cost goals."
Key Responsibilities: many bullet-like sentences. Let's extract each sentence as a list item.
I'll list them:
- Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business.
- Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with commodity strategies led by the local plant commodity buyer.
- Provides program management for supply chain projects, focusing on (1) internal alignment of the project scope, (2) vigilant cost containment, adhering to the business case the project was approved on (3) a comprehensive communications effort to assure all stakeholders are aligned throughout the life of the project.
- Lead regular review with cross-functional team to drive actions and execution.
- Strong Accountability to own, lead Lead judgement/selection of ideas with pool of experts resulting from ideation sessions. and drive execution of VAVE projects (some duplication; we need to clean). Might be messy. We'll try to capture distinct responsibilities.
Better to parse the block: after "Key Responsibilities" there is a long paragraph with many responsibilities separated by periods. We'll split by periods and keep meaningful.
Let's copy the responsibilities section text:
"Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business. Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with commodity strategies led by the local plant commodity buyer.Provides program management for supply chain projects, focusing on (1) internal alignment of the project scope, (2) vigilant cost containment, adhering to the business case the project was approved on (3) a comprehensive communications effort to assure all stakeholders are aligned throughout the life of the project.Lead regular review with cross-functional team to drive actions and execution.Strong Accountability to own, lead Lead judgement/selection of ideas with pool of experts resulting from ideation sessions. and drive execution of VAVE projectsWorks at all levels of the organization to build a case for the project and gain the alignment of the various department allowing the allocation of the necessary resources to execute the project.Interacts with customer teams to help develop and provide the necessary information to gain approval of the customer for the project(s) to be implemented.Initiates, monitors, reports on the SAP change case associated with the project to keep forward momentum on the project.Assures processes are followed during project implementation to meet cost, timing, and delivery objectives in a IATF / TS16949 environment.Establishes and maintains communications with internal stakeholders across functional areas.Effectively presents high-level information to senior management as required.Develops relationships with supplier partners and cross-functional internal team members to facilitate project communication and implementation.Understands financial reports and engineering documents/dataUnderstands and adheres to current quality and control policies.Understands and adheres to current health, safety, and environmental policies.Communicates and enforces safe work procedures. Negotiates long-term agreements for series production components and services.Strategizes the purchasing of turbo charger components locally and globally with support of the Global Commodity Managers.Plans, organizes, tracks and disseminates information related to production suppliers.Create / develop new cost reduction ideas Year Over Year (YOY) using Design for Value (DfV) techniques, VA/VE, Design for Manufacturing (DfM), Design for Assembly (DfA), lean concepts, Long Term Agreements (LTA), etc.Meet or exceed metrics developed by the plant / corporate goals.Supports the global corporate purchasing activities.Develops metrics to measure progress in the commodity.Participates in Purchasing Council conference calls and meetings.Selects suppliers for existing products through effective use of proven procurement skills in an automotive environmentRecommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs.Explores available technology and implements best practices related to purchasing activities.Prepares RFQ’s for multi-year full production quantities.Participates in purchasing related internal meetings, including making presentations to senior management.Understands and adheres to current quality and control policies.Understands and adheres to current health, safety, and environmental policies.Selects suppliers for existing products through effective use of proven procurement skills in an automotive environmentReduces year over year (YOY) costs through aggressive negotiations, resourcing, market test, Value Analysis, Long Term Agreements (LTA), Business Incentives (BI), Annual Improvement Factor (AIF) as well as supply base.Recommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs.Explore and aggressively pursue cost reduction opportunities using cost model tools and bubble charts.Explores available and new technologies and implements best practices in procurement.Develops new suppliers that meet BW cost, quality and delivery requirements.Evaluates part designs with engineering, quality and suppliers to obtain optimum efficiencies.Participates in purchasing related internal meetings, including making presentations to senior management. Support monthly cost reduction reports.Maintains complex spreadsheets containing supply base data, including piece prices breakdown, part weight, volumes, suppliers name, LRP info, etc.Communicates and enforces safe work procedures. Identifies and closes safety issues (suggestions, inspection and investigation findings) and their corrective actions. Supplier Productivity improvements (utilizing Lean principles and process optimization) Material Savings (Resourcing of components and supporting SCM negotiations as neededDesign (Material changes, Design Geometry optimization, product value optimization (cost, function, quality) Perform other duties as needed."
That's huge. We'll need to extract distinct responsibilities but we can just keep as list items each sentence. However many sentences are run-on without spaces. We'll need to insert spaces where missing. Might be okay to keep as is but ensure readability.
Given the instruction to preserve ALL substantive information, we can keep the responsibilities as a single paragraph? But they said use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to make a list.
We could create a list with each responsibility as a separate
- . We'll need to split by periods and ensure each item ends with a period.
Let's attempt to manually split:
1. Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business.
2. Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation,
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:
About the role
Job Purpose ... (the paragraph about BorgWarner Arden campus, role responsibilities high-level). Could combine with About Us? But we have separate About Us description of company. Could we include that as part of About the role? Might be okay but maybe better to have a separate "About the company" but not in allowed headings. Since they only gave examples, but we can use other headings? The instruction: "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples but we could use others? Safer to stick to those. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have About Us (company) maybe could go under About the role? But that is about company not role. However we could still put it there as prose about the role's context. It's okay.
Responsibilities: we have many responsibilities; we can list them as - .
Requirements: degree, experience, etc.
Qualifications: maybe same as Requirements; but we could separate: Requirements (experience, degree) and Qualifications (skills, certifications). But we need to avoid duplication.
Skills: maybe list specific skills like Microsoft Office, negotiation, etc.
Benefits: list.
Pay: salary range.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We have specific salary range.
Let's extract details.
From posting:
About Us: "BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for the vehicle market. We are a company of innovators and independent thinkers that brings together talented employees, meaningful work, and amazing technology in a unique environment. At BorgWarner we constantly work towards our vision of a clean and energy-efficient world. Our Culture We believe the health and safety of our employees are a top priority. We care about our local communities and the global environment. BorgWarner promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive environment, honors integrity, strives for excellence, commits to responsibility for our communities and the environment, and builds on the power of collaboration. Career Opportunities We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies, and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Start your future with BorgWarner now! For a listing of Asheville/Arden openings BorgWarner Openings"
That's a lot; we can keep as prose.
Job Purpose: "The BorgWarner Arden campus offers two world class technical centers and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility that designs and produces turbos, fan, and fan drive components for the automotive industry. The Arden campus offers a multitude of career opportunities and is in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. The Buyer reports to the Purchasing Manager, as do other Buyers of various levels and responsibilities. This position is responsible for prioritizing, planning, scheduling, executing and coordinating all phases of assigned work. This position manages a full range of materials and services, as assigned, with responsibility for developing and maintaining excellent supplier relationships. In addition to direct responsibility for managing the supplier base, this position supports internal product and manufacturing teams on commercial issues and participates on division and corporate purchasing teams. The incumbent also contributes to the overall effectiveness of the materials department as a team member in negotiations and in providing assistance and direction to co-workers. The Buyer is empowered to act as an agent of the company and is given broad latitude to take action for the benefit of the organization. Due to the responsibilities of this position the incumbent must be a person of high integrity."
ACCOUNTABILITIES: "Develop and manage supply base for assigned commodities to achieve quality, delivery and cost goals."
Key Responsibilities: many bullet-like sentences. Let's extract each sentence as a list item.
I'll list them:
- Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business.
- Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with commodity strategies led by the local plant commodity buyer.
- Provides program management for supply chain projects, focusing on (1) internal alignment of the project scope, (2) vigilant cost containment, adhering to the business case the project was approved on (3) a comprehensive communications effort to assure all stakeholders are aligned throughout the life of the project.
- Lead regular review with cross-functional team to drive actions and execution.
- Strong Accountability to own, lead Lead judgement/selection of ideas with pool of experts resulting from ideation sessions. and drive execution of VAVE projects (some duplication; we need to clean). Might be messy. We'll try to capture distinct responsibilities.
Better to parse the block: after "Key Responsibilities" there is a long paragraph with many responsibilities separated by periods. We'll split by periods and keep meaningful.
Let's copy the responsibilities section text:
"Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business. Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with commodity strategies led by the local plant commodity buyer.Provides program management for supply chain projects, focusing on (1) internal alignment of the project scope, (2) vigilant cost containment, adhering to the business case the project was approved on (3) a comprehensive communications effort to assure all stakeholders are aligned throughout the life of the project.Lead regular review with cross-functional team to drive actions and execution.Strong Accountability to own, lead Lead judgement/selection of ideas with pool of experts resulting from ideation sessions. and drive execution of VAVE projectsWorks at all levels of the organization to build a case for the project and gain the alignment of the various department allowing the allocation of the necessary resources to execute the project.Interacts with customer teams to help develop and provide the necessary information to gain approval of the customer for the project(s) to be implemented.Initiates, monitors, reports on the SAP change case associated with the project to keep forward momentum on the project.Assures processes are followed during project implementation to meet cost, timing, and delivery objectives in a IATF / TS16949 environment.Establishes and maintains communications with internal stakeholders across functional areas.Effectively presents high-level information to senior management as required.Develops relationships with supplier partners and cross-functional internal team members to facilitate project communication and implementation.Understands financial reports and engineering documents/dataUnderstands and adheres to current quality and control policies.Understands and adheres to current health, safety, and environmental policies.Communicates and enforces safe work procedures. Negotiates long-term agreements for series production components and services.Strategizes the purchasing of turbo charger components locally and globally with support of the Global Commodity Managers.Plans, organizes, tracks and disseminates information related to production suppliers.Create / develop new cost reduction ideas Year Over Year (YOY) using Design for Value (DfV) techniques, VA/VE, Design for Manufacturing (DfM), Design for Assembly (DfA), lean concepts, Long Term Agreements (LTA), etc.Meet or exceed metrics developed by the plant / corporate goals.Supports the global corporate purchasing activities.Develops metrics to measure progress in the commodity.Participates in Purchasing Council conference calls and meetings.Selects suppliers for existing products through effective use of proven procurement skills in an automotive environmentRecommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs.Explores available technology and implements best practices related to purchasing activities.Prepares RFQ’s for multi-year full production quantities.Participates in purchasing related internal meetings, including making presentations to senior management.Understands and adheres to current quality and control policies.Understands and adheres to current health, safety, and environmental policies.Selects suppliers for existing products through effective use of proven procurement skills in an automotive environmentReduces year over year (YOY) costs through aggressive negotiations, resourcing, market test, Value Analysis, Long Term Agreements (LTA), Business Incentives (BI), Annual Improvement Factor (AIF) as well as supply base.Recommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs.Explore and aggressively pursue cost reduction opportunities using cost model tools and bubble charts.Explores available and new technologies and implements best practices in procurement.Develops new suppliers that meet BW cost, quality and delivery requirements.Evaluates part designs with engineering, quality and suppliers to obtain optimum efficiencies.Participates in purchasing related internal meetings, including making presentations to senior management. Support monthly cost reduction reports.Maintains complex spreadsheets containing supply base data, including piece prices breakdown, part weight, volumes, suppliers name, LRP info, etc.Communicates and enforces safe work procedures. Identifies and closes safety issues (suggestions, inspection and investigation findings) and their corrective actions. Supplier Productivity improvements (utilizing Lean principles and process optimization) Material Savings (Resourcing of components and supporting SCM negotiations as neededDesign (Material changes, Design Geometry optimization, product value optimization (cost, function, quality) Perform other duties as needed."
That's huge. We'll need to extract distinct responsibilities but we can just keep as list items each sentence. However many sentences are run-on without spaces. We'll need to insert spaces where missing. Might be okay to keep as is but ensure readability.
Given the instruction to preserve ALL substantive information, we can keep the responsibilities as a single paragraph? But they said use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to make a list.
We could create a list with each responsibility as a separate
- . We'll need to split by periods and ensure each item ends with a period.
Let's attempt to manually split:
1. Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business.
2. Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation,
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to make a list. We could create a list with each responsibility as a separate
- . We'll need to split by periods and ensure each item ends with a period. Let's attempt to manually split: 1. Lead cross-functional team of experts to implement value creation projects to increase economic value for the Asheville Operations business. 2. Responsible for the initiation, overall direction, coordination, development, implementation,