**Job Description**
**Buyer Business Unit**
**What can you expect?**
*Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit*
*www.adient.com*
**What will your responsibilities be?**
- Support all program purchasing activities within the given Customer Business Unit while ensuring compliance with overall company objectives, strategies and procedures.
- Coordination of Program Purchasing activities over specific customer business unit to ensure excellent product launches
- Ensure smooth project launches
- Control and approval of all Program Purchasing activities specified in Program launch system and decisions in line with customer demands and commodity strategies
- Guarantee financial control over complex, modular programs from phase 0-5 and over lifetime
- Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all required goods, materials, equipment and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets
- Initiate and support of proper Make or Buy decisions
- Initiate and support Value Analysis/Value Engineering activities
- Initiate and support cost optimization/saving projects
- Program team member for a specific number of programs
- Guarantee compliance with all Adient procedures
- Manage the Suppliers within the given programs (Request for Quotes RFQ, change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolutions etc.)
**Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?**
- Commercial or technical degree
- Minimum 2 years in Automotive (preferably) Purchasing of production materials.
- In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
- PC knowledge (MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
- Controlling and cost analysis knowledge
- Relevant SAP knowledge
- Fluent English
*Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.*
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Michaela Cochard on +421 2 5727 1993.
**PRIMARY LOCATION**
Bratislava Business Centre
**Buyer Business Unit**
**What can you expect?**
*Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit*
*www.adient.com*
**What will your responsibilities be?**
- Support all program purchasing activities within the given Customer Business Unit while ensuring compliance with overall company objectives, strategies and procedures.
- Coordination of Program Purchasing activities over specific customer business unit to ensure excellent product launches
- Ensure smooth project launches
- Control and approval of all Program Purchasing activities specified in Program launch system and decisions in line with customer demands and commodity strategies
- Guarantee financial control over complex, modular programs from phase 0-5 and over lifetime
- Ensure the cost-, quality and time-oriented supply of all required goods, materials, equipment and services under compliance with the respective business plans, budgets and targets
- Initiate and support of proper Make or Buy decisions
- Initiate and support Value Analysis/Value Engineering activities
- Initiate and support cost optimization/saving projects
- Program team member for a specific number of programs
- Guarantee compliance with all Adient procedures
- Manage the Suppliers within the given programs (Request for Quotes RFQ, change management, contract negotiations, payment queries, dispute resolutions etc.)
**Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?**
- Commercial or technical degree
- Minimum 2 years in Automotive (preferably) Purchasing of production materials.
- In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices
- PC knowledge (MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
- Controlling and cost analysis knowledge
- Relevant SAP knowledge
- Fluent English
*Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.*
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Michaela Cochard on +421 2 5727 1993.
**PRIMARY LOCATION**
Bratislava Business Centre
