Buyer

Role Summary:

The Buyer manages supplier relationships, sourcing activities, and commercial negotiations to achieve cost, quality, and delivery targets. The role partners with suppliers, plants, and global category teams to execute sourcing strategies, support new programs, and drive continuous improvement.

Your Role:

• Negotiate Material Performance to meet annual targets, material to revenue ratio and business case financials. 
• Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with key suppliers to review performance to targets, address performance gaps, develop future projects and discuss strategic alignment between Supplier and APTIV. 
• Monitor bill of material changes, components prices changes and process changes and if needed propose price list adjustment. 
• Create, issue and maintain scheduling agreements with supply base according to APTIV SCM policies and procedures.  
• Ensure negotiated conditions implementation in operations.  Consider quality, delivery service, technology, price and timing of needed products. 
• Collect total information (volumes, prices, specifications and other conditions) for new projects as well as for all other running   projects to define purchasing strategy. 
• Develop new supply base in cooperation with Global Category Manager and GPL for new programs. 
• Monitor quality of suppliers and propose actions to improve supplier quality. 
• Conduct QBRs (Quartely Business Reviews) with key suppliers to monitor and improve performance on quality, service, technology, price, delivery and other aspects. 
• Use category strategy to conduct new parts sourcings. 
• Report results in the required format and make recommendations to regional and global leadership as well as to Sourcing Committee considering the needs and concerns of the individual NA plants. 
• Assure compliance with local procedures, company processes and work instructions. 

Your Background:

• Completed bachelor's degree
• +4 years of experience as a Buyer
• Experience with the Stamping and Casting category.
• Advanced English
• Strong negotiation skills and excellent communication skills
• Experience in Automotive industry is a must
• Strategic planning and execution

Your Benefits:

• Savings Fund
• Pension Plan
• Christmas Bonus
• Attendance Bonus
• Vacation Premium
• Medical Expenses
• Life Insurance
• Social security (IMSS, INFONAVIT, Retirement)
• Recognition for innovation and excellence
• Opportunities to give back to the community

WHY JOIN US?

• You can grow at Aptiv. Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.
• You can have an impact. Safety is a core Aptiv value; we want a safer world for us and our children, one with: Zero fatalities, Zero injuries, Zero accidents.
• You have support. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family and your physical and mental health with a competitive health insurance package.

At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.

Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on—advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.

Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.

Join Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!

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