Steel Commodity Buyer

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

• Negotiate and source steel for Brose plants and Brose stampers in USA & CAN.
• Manage commercial relationship with Steel partners in USA & CAN.
• Set-up sourcing file, analyze & negotiate quotes and present final proposal to DM
• Finalize agreements, set-up award files and sign LOAs with USA & CAN SSC’s.
• Update and validate steel prices in line with supplier index agreements
• Set-up steel pricing sheets and distribute to all stampers & commodity buyers
• Set-up & update steel shipping files to calculate quarterly rebates from all SSCs
• Get Credit Notes from SSCs and provide rebate allocation to AM/EK controlling
• Maintain & keep all steel records updated as new PNs are added to NA steel pool
• Support Project buyers providing steel prices for target setting process
• Get steel specs & volumes from project buyers to support new projects ramp-up
• Onboard new steel suppliers according to AM strategy & processes (e.g. GTCPs)
• Support steel shortages at Brose plants and stampers to avoid Customer impact
• Provide SC & commodity buyers scrap indexes for their scrap recovery calculation
• Perform detailed cost break-down analysis to identify cost reduction opportunities
• Identify cost reduction projects and support execution of related RACE measures
• Monitor index trends, Market intelligence and forward-looking outlooks from commodity experts
• Support Annual Raw Material premise and quarterly forecast updates

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Business or Engineering from a four-year college or university
• 3 - 5 years experience
• Analytical skills: Index trends & adjustments, cost analysis, demand analysis, etc.
• Data management: attention to details and proficiency in SAP & Excel
• Negotiation techniques
• Supplier relationship & stakeholder management
• Project management / Risk management
• Leadership & assertive communication
• Basic steel grades & properties, stamping process and foreign trade concepts (Incoterms, HTS, tariffs, etc.)
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Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location