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Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Purchasing Trainee Apprentice

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKonan, Aichi, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

  • Attend project meetings as a member of the project team and lead or support project activities involving purchasing through project closure.
  • Support the Project Manager in preparing the sourcing plan, defining mutual PTM commitments, and setting conditions for Pre-SoCo, SoCo, and SOP at required quality, cost, and delivery conditions.
  • Confirm project team commitments in L2 planning in Puma.
  • Select supplier bid lists based on compliant segment panels and liaise with project and segment organizations to identify bundling opportunities.
  • Identify critical parts according to CLEAN definitions and review contingency plans with the related PTM, including anticipated design reviews, S-VRF, and possible specification changes; request Project Manager arbitration when needed.
  • Coordinate S-VRF definition and upload in Puma by each PTM, and plan supplier design reviews to ensure supplier understanding, capture improvement proposals, obtain supplier acceptance of Valeo requirements, and enhance competition at equivalent scope.
  • Use available Puma features and promote their use within the project team.
  • Involve the Segment Leader or Group Segment Director at appropriate times to share project constraints and propose sourcing strategies compliant with Group Segment Strategy.
  • Assess pre-selected suppliers' project risks relating to development or production capacity, technical or quality capability, and financial sustainability; propose mitigation plans with the project team and commodity organization and ensure plans are recorded in Puma Pre-SoCo and SoCo sections or one-page documents.
  • Propose lotting and RFP tactics and anticipate the use of auctions with the project team.
  • Perform the RFQ process through Puma and live or online auctions.
  • Leverage the commodity organization to reach pre-sourcing and sourcing decisions and meet project targets.
  • Anticipate and escalate issues to the appropriate organizational level to ensure risk mitigation plans, SoCo decisions, project quality, cost, and delivery targets, and segment strategies are enforced.
  • Ensure timely stakeholder sign-off for successful auction events.
  • Maintain timely updates of sourcing process milestones, including Pre-SoCo and SoCo, to ensure reliable SoCo forecasts and enable anticipation of bundling opportunities and business-link item selection.
  • Liaise with Productivity Buyers to identify possible part numbers for Business Link application before auctions or SoCo.
  • Pilot and forecast the project purchasing index and lead productivity action plans (VP and PTBV) to reach CAA targets.
  • Ensure proper transfer to serial production, including productivity actions yet to be implemented (PTBV).
  • Ensure creation of Early Open Orders in SAP in coordination with the Productivity Buyer.
  • Define and control communication flows and content between project teams and suppliers, and ensure project and supplier documentation, including contracts, LON, LTA, and BL, is stored properly in Puma.
  • Manage supplier-related project milestones and track progress of PQA stages.
  • For global platforms assembled at multiple Valeo plants, coordinate with PG/PL PPD, the Platform Project Buyer when appointed, and other project buyers to ensure the project meets commodity strategy, receiving-plant localization needs, and global leverage and supply-base security from SOP.

About the Company

Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Valeo creates technology for automakers to make cars cleaner, safer, and smarter, focusing on four areas: electrification, driving assistance, reinvented interior experiences, and lighting. Its products combine electrical systems, sensors, software, and lighting that are designed, manufactured, and integrated into vehicles to enable electric propulsion, automated driving features, smarter interiors, and advanced illumination. The company differentiates itself by being a global industrial and technology leader with a large manufacturing footprint and a broad, cross‑domain portfolio across mobility transformation. Valeo’s goal is to help the transportation system shift toward cleaner, safer, and smarter mobility worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1923

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