Buyer

at  American Axle Manufacturing

At AAM, the POWER is in our people. We believe that an equitable and inclusive workplace benefits everyone, and that the diversity of our Associates drives creativity and innovation. Our global team is made of dreamers, doers and innovators who are Delivering POWER for a safer, brighter and more sustainable tomorrow.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Responsible for processing requisitions and tooling orders, managing and resolving issues, and supporting the P2P process for an assigned category and/or region.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Reviews and processes incoming requisitions/POs, places tool orders, initiates tool-order payments, initiates PPAP requests, and updates POs with design changes/revisions as needed.
• Coordinates with suppliers and business partners to resolve routine issues such as past-due POs, match exceptions, discrepancies with freight charges and freight billings, price/invoice issue resolution, updating/incrementing POs, etc.
• Supports the solicitation of quotes and evaluation of bids as needed for items above the bid threshold not under contract, and those that are not part of the global category-management sourcing process.
• Performs routine and as-needed compliance monitoring to contracts to monitor pricing, delivery, and other KPIs as outlined in the contracts.
• Monitors compliance to business unit and corporate policies and procedures.
• Executes contract and PO life cycle management activities, such as reporting for expiring or aged POs and contracts and execution of contract/PO administration/clean up/close out.
• All other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EDUCATION

BA/BS plus 2-5 years professional experience; or Advanced Degree plus 0-3 years professional experience.

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