About this role
Job Summary:
Utilizes a basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices tasks to understand procurement needs while supporting early product development activities. Helps identify technology trends and supplier technology road maps.
Key Responsibilities:
Supports in obtaining input of project leadership, suppliers, product engineers, or technology teams to ensure delivery of robust prototype and production designs, technical risk mitigation plans, and coordinated deliverables of new or current product change activity. Assists with analyses in support of the technical product specialist working in business processes of Product Preceding Technology (PPT) and other early product development activity. Coordinate business documents to support supplier agreements required to protect intellectual properties. Engages with project teams and engineering to understand needs for new suppliers and technologies and connects engineering with the appropriate sourcing team. For defined projects, supports as the procurement team member and assists to meet the required procurement deliverables. Prepares information for management and functional reviews. Supports to establish preliminary new product program sourcing strategies for Product Preceding Technology (PPT) or other projects that are moving to VPI.
Prefer to have procurement/project management 2 years+