Purchasing Ford Champ (Trainee)

Ford Champs looks forward to providing you with key knowledge and significant experiences for your professional career.  This is a great platform to connect with leadership, collaborate with professionals in many areas of the business and learn more about our Ford full time opportunities. Throughout this program, there are many opportunities to gain insight and exposure to our business that will last a lifetime. 

Ford Champs will allow to get to now different business areas through 12 months, while you improve your skills and become a better professional.

As a Purchasing Ford Champ, you will be responsible of supporting Purchasing Team, generating deep analysis for the Supply Base cost structure, negotiations with the Supply base, creating synergy to optimize the Ford spend. 

• One of your initial projects will be to support us in the analysis of the supply consolidation to leverage negotiations and productivities, reducing current complexity. 
• Analyze cost savings goals annually to identify pure commercial leverage versus design efficiencies and end-to-end supply chain improvements
• Enhance analytical skills (Must be data driven and able to analyze multiple potential scenarios / business plans)
• Look at all existing processes and challenge if improvements can be made, regardless of scale
• Support Operational and Category Implementation Buyers on all sourcing, resourcing, banking, and operations activities
• Work with Product Development, Quality and Finance & Suppliers

• Active student from any of the last 2 semesters Engineering, International Business Administration, Supply Chain or a related field of study

• 90% English skills (Oral, reading, writing, and listening)Planning skills to manage multiple tasks and priorities

• Strong analytical skills (Must be data driven and able to Planning skills to manage multiple tasks and priorities)
• Strong negotiation skills (creating leverage in both offensive and defensive situations) - or looking to learn about it
• Must be a self-starter/ motivated and be able to work both independently as well as in a team setting analyze multiple potential scenarios / business plans)

Ford of Mexico is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or disability status.

Our focus is to build the best team. If you think you can bring value to Ford, love to collaborate, prioritize and aim to deliver excellence in everything you do, we encourage you to apply! 

We thank all candidates for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.#LI-JRA 

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