Job Description

Inside the Role

As a key member of the Daimler Truck purchasing team, you can add critical value to the entire organization. Work within a global purchasing organization that requires entrepreneurial spirit, a self-starting mindset, a collaborative working environment, and empowerment together with responsibility and ownership. You’ll help us source the highest quality parts and services from around the globe while ensuring optimal cost and on-time delivery.

Identify innovative suppliers for captive powertrain components and collaborate with cross-functional business partners to optimize the total cost of ownership for Daimler Truck customers. If you have the passion to develop strong, mutually beneficial supplier relationships that will result in optimized costs, improved quality and enhanced sustainability, we want you to join us.

Shape the future of transportation!

Posting Information

We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.

We Take Care of Our Team

What You Drive at DTNA

Partner with Engineering in early product development:

• Collaborate with engineering in early product development stages to understand technical requirements.
• Identify excellent suppliers capable of meeting design, manufacturing, and material specifications.
• Work together with Engineering to develop and validate new strong, capable, and innovative supplier partners.

Develop business cases and sourcing recommendations considering multifaceted complex tradeoffs such as:

• Develop sourcing strategies.
• Optimization of total cost of ownership.
• Local regulatory requirements vs. global platform synergies.
• Best Cost Country vs. local-for-local production scenarios.
• Multi-source vs. single source supplier strategies.
• In-house vs. external supplier supplied components.

Implement sourcing strategies with supplier partners

• Responsible for new product projects, series products, technical changes, premise changes and cost optimization initiatives.

Create contractual framework and implement contracts with supplier partners:

• Derive contract language with oversight and support from internal legal counsel.
• Negotiate contracts including pricing, pricing adjustments, Terms and Conditions, Long Term Agreement, Supplier Quality Agreement, Warranty Agreement, Aftermarket Agreement with supplier partners.
• Interpret contractual obligations and remedies to manage supplier disputes to resolution.

Lead cost optimization and special vendor recovery initiatives with cross-functional and supplier partners:

• Negotiate special vendor recovery topics such as field failures, project delays, technical specification non-compliance, and constraint costs.
• Lead cost optimization initiatives such as VAVE, de-contenting, alternative materials, and more.

Represent Daimler Truck as the preferred partner of best-in-class suppliers:

Collaborate with and support cross-functional business partners on a broad range of supplier related topics,

• Project deliverables,
• Volume and capacity planning,
• Manufacturing efficiencies,
• Cash flow optimization,
• Import customs and duties compliance,
• Logistic route optimization, and
• Warehousing,
• Adherence to the agreed contractual obligations.
• Drive data transparency to support fact-based negotiations to deliver cost targets

Risk assessment and mitigation activities:

• Perform bottom up planning for commodity and supplier-related material costs including, raw material, foreign exchange rate, and other inflationary costs such as energy and labor.
• Derive, negotiate, and implement risk mitigation initiatives with supplier partners.

Integrity and Compliance:

• Upholding the values of Daimler Truck and adhering to governmental law and company policy.
• Make fact-based and unbiased procurement decisions based on the most favourable outcome for the company.
• Respect the rules and enforce them to ensure free and fair competition.

Knowledge You Should Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Materials Science, Logistics, or a related technical field and 5-7 years experience in Procurement, is required
• Ability to engage in negotiation and overall alignment with suppliers and internal team
• Team player, strong collaborator.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• An attached resume is required.

Exceptional Candidates Might Have

• Automotive industry experience, highly preferred.
• Experience working for a global company with demonstrated ability to connect and work across cultures and regions.
• Negotiation experience with global supply base.
• Experience in purchasing processes, documentation, compliance and tracking.

#LI-RR1 #LI-Hybrid

Where We Work

This position is open to applicants who can work in (or relocate to) the following location(s)-

Detroit, MI US. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Schedule Type:

Hybrid (4 days per week in-office / 1 day remote). This schedule builds our #OneTeamBestTeam culture, provides an unparalleled customer experience, and creates innovative solutions through in-person collaboration.

At Daimler Truck North America, we recognize our world is changing faster than ever before. By listening to the needs of today, we’re building to solve with cutting-edge solutions in sustainability and future driving technology across electric, hydrogen and autonomous. These solutions, backed by years of innovative success and achievement, continue DTNA’s legacy as the undisputed industry leader. Our evolving brand portfolio is second to none, including Freightliner Trucks, Western Star, Demand Detroit, Thomas Built Buses, Freightliner Custom Chassis, and Financial Services. Together, we work as one team towards our envisioned future – building a cleaner, safer and more efficient tomorrow for all.

That is what we are working toward - for all who keep the world moving.

Additional Information

• This position is not open for Visa sponsorship or to existing Visa holders
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work permanently in the country the position is located in at the time of application
• Final candidate must successfully complete a criminal background check
• Final candidate may be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen
• Contractors, professional services, or other contingent workers should confirm with their local agency if they are eligible to apply for FTE positions
• EEO - Disabled/Veterans

Daimler Truck North America is committed to workforce inclusion and providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, marital status, family relationship, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (including transgender and transitioning status), genetic information, or veteran status.

For an accommodation or special assistance with applying for a posted position, please contact our Human Resources department at 503-745-8982 or toll free 800-206-3369. For TTY/TDD enabled call 503-745-2137 or toll free 866-355-6935.