Ford Purchasing Program Manager 

United States, Michigan, Dearborn 

406114716

What you’ll do...

• Work with the CE1 global supply chain team to create innovative purchasing strategies and non-traditional sourcing tools.
• Work with CE1 related engineers, buyers, and global supply chain managers to enable a high standard in purchasing activities.
• Drive global supply chain activities such as sourcing strategy approvals and recommendations.
• Learn Jira, a widely used program management tool outside of the automotive industry, to help program manage all sourcing activities for CE1. This software is also used to create visualizations for program updates.
• Learn LightSource, a collaborative new software used to interact with vendors and manage RFQ packages.
• You will have numerous opportunities to present to the executive staff on the overall health of the CE1 program from a purchasing perspective.
• Be involved in industrialization requirement discussions to have a first principles approach to when teams should source a part or system.