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Every day, Kelly Services connects professionals with opportunities to advance their careers. We currently have an exciting contract opportunity with one of our leading clients!

Title: Buyer / Purchasing

Location: Dearborn, MI

Duration: 24 months +

Responsibilities

• Negotiate competitive contracts in the Motorsports category, i.e., terms & conditions, payment terms, and pricing

• Strong Supply Chain process skills with attention to detail, including ability to interface with various legal teams within Ford, leading meetings with supplier legal counsel, and facilitating risk assessments

• Ability to build/maintain constructive internal cross functional and external business relationships

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• Extensive contracting experience is a must, role will support managing, negotiating, and drafting numerous contracts including those over $100MM

• Ability to read and draft contracts, facilitate contract negotiations, facilitate risk assessments

• Ability to effectively manage, coordinate, and negotiate high dollar value contracts and POs

• Strong program management and communication skills

• Ability to influence peers from within Supply Chain and cross functionally.

• Self-starter with strong interpersonal and written communication skills (team player)

• Ability to adapt to the “gray space” of Indirect Supply Chain buy with effective analytics skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge/Experience in Indirect Aurora (SAP Ariba) and non-production contracts is desirable

• Motorsports experience

• Program management experience

• End to end contract lifecycle management

Additional Information

• Hybrid / 3 days in office at WHQ in Dearborn

Important information: This position is recruited for by a remote Kelly office, not your local Kelly branch. Applicants must be legally permitted to work in the United States. Please contact Taryn Carbone ( taryn.carbone@kellyengineering.com ) for immediate consideration.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here (https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits) for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.