Senior Category Buyer

Transforming how we interact with our vehicles to make the driving experience more enjoyable, connected, and safe.
Enabling a software-defined, electrified future.

Visteon is a technology company that develops and builds innovative digital cockpit and electrification products at the leading-edge of the mobility revolution. Founded in 2000, Visteon brings decades of automotive intelligence combined with Silicon Valley speed to apply global insights that help transform the software-defined vehicle of the future for many of the world’s largest OEMs. The company employs 10,000 employees in 18 countries around the globe.

Senior Category Buyer

The Mission of the Role:

The mission of this role is to develop and own implementation of semiconductor commodity strategies in the specific areas of SoC and high performance compute that drive cost savings, improve product reliability, and foster innovation while ensuring a maximum competitive advantage for the organization.

Key objectives of this Role:

Focus on procurement of semiconductor direct material from external manufacturers and distributors while driving cost, quality, and commercial relationship management. Responsibilities include the relationship management of specific direct material suppliers with local, regional, and global accountability to ensure supply continuity, business profitability, product reliability, and optimal material cost.

• Develop and implement commodity strategies to deliver maximum competitive advantage.
• Support Commodity bid lists, track supplier performance, and source new business.
• Lead negotiations to deliver savings supporting corporate cost objectives.
• Benchmarking, rationalization, development, and management of critical and strategic suppliers.
• Support new business pursuits and maintain a database of key supplier technology capabilities.
• Execute best-in-class sourcing process to secure the sourcing nomination of optimal total cost solution to support Visteon programs, through regional/global supplier quotations, negotiations, and successful contract management.
• Identify new technologies and suppliers to give Visteon a competitive advantage.
• Develop knowledge and utilize modern purchasing tools and techniques to achieve successful cost-down activity.
• Work closely with Buyers, Program Purchasing, and Engineering teams globally to support market intelligence analysis, supplier and technology selection, and competitor benchmarking activity.
• Able to balance risks to achieve the lowest material cost within very tight deadlines.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Annual net PPV objective on impactable spend.
• Supplier payment term achievement.
• Supplier claims recovery.
• Peripheral supply chain support objectives (delivery, quality, inventory, pursuit support).

Key Year One Deliverable:

• Manage and evolve SoC and HPC technology strategy
• Develop Internal and External stakeholder relationships.
• Achievement of annual purchasing KPIs.

Qualification, Experience, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering preferred
• 5 years in responsible roles within a global business environment and procurement/purchasing and/or sales/FAE semiconductor experience.
• Strong knowledge of the semiconductor industry (Suppliers, Technologies, Components).
• Ability to present commodity strategy and performance results to executives and drive to closure key actions.
• Experience in sourcing or sales and negotiating electronic components and using strategic techniques to achieve results.
• Proven knowledge of category strategies with a focus on semiconductor technologies.
• Effective negotiation skills
• Value Chain Analysis (VAVE, TQCM)
• Supplier evaluation/selection
• Effective presentation skills and Strong communication skills.

Key Leadership Behaviors:

• Lead from the front
• Inspire change
• Lead the market
• Strong business partner
• Critical thinker
• Visionary
• Resilient
• Perseverant

Reporting Structure: Reports to the Director of Semiconductor SoC, Memory and Module Procurement

Visteon Culture: If you thrive in a fast-paced, organizational culture that requires agility, adaptability, and a growth mindset from its employees to thrive and stay ahead of the curve Visteon is the place. We value high performance and a drive for results. Innovation, risk-taking, and continuous learning help us keep up with the ever-changing landscape of our industry and be Market leaders. At Visteon, you can be more.