Purchasing Program Manager

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Description

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The Program Purchasing Manager is responsible for driving procurement excellence across new product development projects, ensuring cross-functional alignment, timely material availability, cost optimization, and performance tracking. Acting as a strategic interface between Purchasing, R&D;, and Project Management, this role supports the full product lifecycle from concept to phase-out.

The Program Purchasing Manager reports to VP Purchasing.

Requirements

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- Responsible for leading, coordinating, and reporting all Purchasing activities for new product development

- Act as the main Purchasing interface within the project team, ensuring clear communication and alignment across functions

- Define BOMs for new projects in alignment with R&D;, ensuring consistency with product specifications and company Purchasing strategies

- Actively participate in project team meetings, contributing to decision-making by balancing cost targets, time-to-market, and other project drivers

- Work closely with Commodity Managers, Project Leaders and Product Managers to align R&D; activities with commodity strategies

- Attend regular project meetings,



ensuring Purchasing inputs and recommendations are properly representedReview and clarify all project requirements, ensuring alignment with final application specifications

- Lead NPI sourcing activities and material preparation, ensuring project timelines are met

- Support early demand shaping and visibility with suppliers during NPI to ensure capacity readiness

- Ensure all required inputs for accurate cost estimation are provided by PM/R&D; (e.g. specifications, BOM, target cost, volumes)

- Perform BOM cost analysis during development and support project status reporting

- Set cost targets for the Commodity team, ensuring project cost objectives are achieved

- Define and track key KPIs (cost vs target, sourcing timing, xysqume supplier readiness, etc.) for projects

- Manage and coordinate the Purchasing impact of engineering changes during development but also in the MP stage

- Continuously drive sourcing and cost-saving initiatives

- Support COGS ownership, cost optimization, and RTC activities throughout the full product lifecycle, including mass production cost management

- Oversee cost estimation, forecasting, and reporting, coordinating with the Program Purchasing Manager team

- Maintain procurement tools and dashboards, and drive digitalization and automation/AI initiatives

Location: Trieste, Italy.

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