Project Buyer

**What's Next? Join ZF**:
ZF is a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology, enabling the next generation of mobility.

ZF allows vehicles to see, think and act. In the four technology domains of Vehicle Motion Control, Integrated Safety, Automated Driving, and Electric Mobility, ZF offers comprehensive product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. ZF electrifies a wide range of vehicle types. With its products, the company contributes to reducing emissions, protecting the climate and enhancing safe mobility.

**Project Buyer (M/F/d)**:

- Country/Region: PT- Location: Ponte de Lima, 16, PT, 4990-645Req ID 69020 Ponte de Lima, Portugal

We are looking for a new colleague to strengthen our Purchasing Team in Ponte de Lima, Portugal (Temporary)

**Main accountabilities, responsabilities and deliverables**:

- Support for core projects/innovations
- Supplier pre-selection in co-operation with Commodity, selection of prototype suppliers, know-how transfer
- Support acquisition/ CQA in direct cooperation with Sales, Engineering, Calculation / Finance
- Project kick-off - interface function to the global commodity
- Contact person for the project team for all relevant purchasing issues
- Risk assessment with Engineering and SDE
- Initiation of the RFQ process
- Coordination of the sourcing process and supplier nomination
- Initiation of tool and series orders
- Project coordination, launch management of series suppliers
- Change management up to 6 months after the start of series production
- Interface to the production plants for all purchasing issues
- Participation in the GDPEP Gate Reviews
- Escalation management in connection with series launch

**Required skills and experience / main competences**:

- Bachelor´s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration
- 3 years of experience in similar fuction
- English and Portuguese fluent (spoken and written) / if possible basic German
- MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- SAP Knowledge

Contact

Ana Rita Pereira Martins

**What does DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mean for ZF as a company?**:
At ZF, we continuously strive to build and maintain a culture where inclusiveness is lived and diversity is valued. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that all our employees can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this vision in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape the future of mobility.

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