Technical Purchasing Manager

Leads the overall coordination of complex technical development and commercial activities and is accountable for the project management of supplier technical risk and quality in the early product development. Integrates the requirements of the many interdisciplinary and cross functional stakeholders towards supplier product development.

Actively influences the design and project risk trade-offs that impact project cost or supplier early engagement without sacrifice of quality expectations. Main focus will include working in business processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT) and other early product developement activity.
Provides leadership to complex supplier relationships through supplier agreements required to protect intellectual properties.
May coordinate and direct work of technical purchasing teams, up to and including direct management of small to mid-sized teams.
Coaches and mentors across a global business unit or corporate area.
Obtains input and negotiates with project leadership, suppliers, customer teams, product engineers, or technology teams to ensure the delivery of robust prototype and production designs, technical risk mitigation plans, and coordinated deliverables of new or current product change activity.
Supports all Supplier Early Engagement work and new technology development .
Engages with project teams and engineering to understand needs for new suppliers and technologies and connects engineering with the appropriate sourcing team.
For defined projects, serve as the purchasing team member and meet the required purchasing deliverables. Where a project includes a deliverable of a demonstration product, support the procurement cycle .
Prepare and deliver information for management and functional reviews.
Establishes preliminary new product program sourcing strategies for Product Preceding Technology (PPT) or other projects that are moving to VPI.
In conjunction with the Technical Cost COE, use Should Cost and/or other tools to develop piece price targets for components and product material cost targets.