Procurement Sourcing Principal Specialist

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose



Lead Specialist assigned to high-complex commodities and most impactful areas within procurement sourcing teams. Responsible for providing expertise for the assigned auto part commodity piece price, investment, and annual cost reduction, all of which have significant impact on HDMA financial performance. Establishment of part and supplier strategies through understanding of the Global and North American supply base, manufacturing process and critical part design elements. Utilize expertise and key stakeholder input to propose the selection of the best cost, quality, development, and delivery supplier. Provide input to key business plan themes, initiatives, and achievement for specialized areas. Responsible for maintaining supplier relationships through sale director level supplier contacts. Effectively lead and develop cost targets and strategies to achieve NM Model cost reduction goals for specialized areas, monitoring progress and performance against the project, plan versus actual.

Key Accountabilities



• Lead, develop, create, and manage specialized area to create and implement commodity part and supplier strategies, identify top cost/complex issues and prioritize areas for improvement (cost, efficiency, process). Desk management at Annual Desk Spend ($1B $1.5B), Exclusive Investment ($12 $17M),

• Research and monitory industry trends (sourcing, technology, market price) for development of Model and Supplier Strategies

• Establish and correlate with design (ADC) on logical cost targes and maker layout proposal, managing multiple model