Eaton’s Electrical division is currently seeking a NPI Strategic Buyer to join our team in Casablanca, Maroco.
What You’ll DoThe NPI Strategic Buyer supports New Product Introduction, industrialization, and production activities by ensuring sourcing feasibility, material readiness, and supplier execution. Working closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Logistics, and Category Managers, the role drives sourcing effectiveness, manages supply risks, and supports successful product launches, ramp-ups, and lifecycle transitions while meeting cost, service, and inventory objectives.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead supply chain support for NPI and industrial transitions aligned to quality, cost, and timeline.
- Drive early supplier selection and sourcing feasibility.
- Ensure supplier readiness for ramp-up, volume changes, and milestones.
- Manage SAP supplier setup and support ramp-down/phase-out with minimal risk and inventory.
- Validate feasibility (material, capacity, lead time).
- Align MPS with supplier execution for launch readiness.
- Support prioritization decisions to protect production.
- Coordinate CAPEX/CAR and define MOQ, packaging, and labeling requirements
- Manage sourcing from NPI to stabilization.
- Execute negotiations, transitions, and ensure compliance.
- Track costs and manage spend vs targets.
- Drive supplier performance (OTR/OTP) and resolve issues.
- Align packaging requirements from proto to SOP phases
- Partner with Operations, Quality, Logistics, and Engineering to support sourcing and industrialization decisions.
- Drive supplier engagement, issue resolution, and risk escalation.
- Support cost reduction and value-improvement initiatives.
- Drive TCO and VA/VE projects through supplier collaboration.
- Manage escalations related to schedule, engineering, and lifecycle changes
- Lead sourcing activities from NPI through production stabilization.
- Support CAPEX purchases and supplier milestone alignment.
- Ensure compliance with sourcing, contractual, and financial policies.
- Transition ownership to Operational Procurement upon stabilization and KPI achievement.
Qualifications
- * Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or Engineering preferably Electrical/Electronics
- Minimum 8-10 years’ of professional experience with 4+ year relevant experience in Electrical & Electronic Components procurement and strategic and Tactical sourcing managing supplier escalations and shortages
- Knowledge of MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI & Project)
- Knowledge of SAP (SAP Procurement Execution), Kinaxis will be a plus
- Knowledge of manufacturing technologies, supply chain process
Skills
- * Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate across diverse global teams.
- Effective leadership and stakeholder management.
- Fluent in English and French
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective time management and deadline focus.
- Experience in data analysis, reporting, and presentations.
- Bias for action with strong execution focus
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
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