Buyer

Are you ready for a better career? A better future?

We’re Lear For You. 

Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lear’s diverse team of talented employees in 37 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. 

If you love challenges, want to experience development opportunities unrestrained, and want recognition that pays off, then you've come to the right place with Lear.
 

Duties can include but not exhaustive :

• Helpdesk service support, handling inbound and outbound Req/calls/email
• Lead the delivery of tactical buying activity for operational planned spend opportunities within defined operational spend levels.
• Manage transactional buying desk activities and support wider strategic category management including raising purchase orders in line with Lear P2P system.
• Deliver additional value to operational buying on orders – interpreting and meeting operational requirements/specifications, demand and delivery of solutions.
• Support of category sourcing that continuously improves suppliers’ and contractors’ compliance with Global, Category and Regionals standards.
• Work closely with category managers and business units to establish and deliver procurement requirements, strategic benefits and compliance to existing procurement contracts.
• Ensures products and services are purchased in the most cost- and time-efficient manner, delivering ‘agile’ solutions to implement and ensure purchasing best practices
• Evaluates, re-tenders, renegotiates or extends contracts and suppliers in order to facilitate tactical and strategic sourcing with relevant stakeholders.
• Engagement with operational teams to review pipeline and track regional and national opportunities.
• Deliver additional value to operational buying activities - supporting operational requirements/specifications, demand and delivery of solutions
• Identification of suppliers and supplier engagement in buying activities.
• Quotation analysis and recommendations, consideration suitability/reliability of suppliers to meet operational requirements
• Monitor and challenge non-compliant buying activities.
• Report on compliance, procurement and operational KPIs.
• Utilization of eProcurement solutions, including eAuctions.

Qualifications:

• College graduate, preferably with a degree in Engineering, Business or Accounting

• At least one to two years of experience as a Buyer

• Experience of operational and tactical activity

• Experience gained within large multinationals in departments such as Finance, Logistics, HR, Procurement and or IT.

• Good oral and written communications

• Good inter-personal relations
• Good negotiation skills
• Data analytics

Lear Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workplace. Applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.