Procurement Engineer - Atlanta, GA

Procurement Engineer

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Siemens is looking for a Procurement Engineer for their Peachtree Corners, GA location. The person will be responsible for the early involvement of procurement and suppliers in the product development/manufacturing process as well as monitoring current products to minimize the overall costs. Procurement Engineer will be one of the main interfaces to engineering from our procurement to ensure the latest technical innovations from the supply base is presented to our engineering team. Additionally, the Procurement Engineer will be at the forefront of working in R&D and interfacing with Commodity Managers on should-cost models and innovate ways to reduce cost during the design phase. Procurement Engineer will also be the main technical interface to our suppliers, ensuring compliance to our cost goals and technical innovations to ensure Siemens is at the bleeding edge of new technologies being invented in the supply chain.

You will make impact with the following responsibilities:

• Early Procurement Involvement: Engage in preliminary development. Be actively involved in the product development/manufacturing process as well as undertaking and pushing forward cost reduction measures (design to cost, target costing, standardization, key data, etc.) to achieve the target costs for materials and reduce the overall material costs by fulfilling the necessary functions. Represent Strategic Procurement in the R&D project meetings and ensure milestone deliverables. Collaborate with R&D engineers and commodity managers to align the development goals with commodity strategies.
• Early Supplier Integration: Include suppliers and conduct cost-benefit analysis workshops, innovation workshops and concept competitions with key suppliers to concentrate on the key functions of the components/projects. Optimize material cost through DtC. Review's material cost target.
• Analysis: Initiate market observation, conduct and provide market information/analyses on international technology and price trends to obtain new suppliers and new technologies in the supply chain.
• Alignment of Technology Roadmaps: Introduce and follow up given cross-functional Procurement strategies to ensure the linkage of commodity strategies and technological market trends.
• Strategy alignment: Support activities planned by the lines of business to harmonize and implement the technological line-of-business strategies with procurement strategies. Supports Core/Non-core initiatives. Participates sourcing strategy development with commodity team.
• Strategy deployment: Drive sourcing decisions with interface partners to incorporate technological knowhow and safeguard security strategies. Drives cross-functional sourcing concept.
• Business support: Be involved in and provide corresponding support for projects in lines of business to provide optimum input for quotes, workshops, scope of material (BoM assessment) and realization of potential for savings in the project.
• Supplier Management: Technology Assess and develop suppliers from the technological standpoint (if necessary, jointly with interface partners) to concentrate on the best suppliers.
• Knowledge management: Participate in workgroups and work in projects to stay informed and keep and others informed and exert influence at an early stage.
• Risk Mitigation: Applies preventive methods aimed at risk minimization. Designs, maintains, and improves specific requirements, specification and concepts based on supplier categorization.
• Supplier Integration: Coordinates product/service qualifications and approvals based on specific requirements / specifications (Ready to Order).