Indirect Buyer
- Location
- Zeeland, MI
- Listed
- Today
About the role
At Gentex, you'll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.
Position Overview
Purchase goods, materials, and services the meet or exceed the expectations of the organization, considering price, quality, and delivery.
Location
This position requires on-site work at a Gentex facility. This role is not eligible for remote work.
What You'll Do
- Purchase goods, materials, and services that meet cost, quality, and delivery targets.
- Request and evaluate supplier quotations.
- Perform cost analysis on good purchased through should cost, competitive bid, and/or cost breakdown analysis.
- Generate purchase orders that comply with company requirements.
- Communicate and work to mitigate any supply problems which may impact our business operations.
- Act as the interface between suppliers and other departments at Gentex.
- Identify risks and drive solutions to mitigate risks and escalate when needed.
- Monitor market trends and drive favorable actions for Gentex.
- Develop and implement cost reductions to ensure favorable Purchase Price Variance (PPV) targets are achieved.
- Manage supplier relationships and insure two-way professional relationships exist.
- Monitor supplier performance and provide feedback.
- Identify and assess new suppliers that can meet the cost, quality, and delivery expectations for Gentex.
- Other duties as assigned.
How You'll Do IT
- Knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
- Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
- Planning, negotiations, and contract management experience.
- Good technical knowledge of Purchasing and ERP systems.
- Able to manage time effectively and prioritize tasks.
- Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations well.
- Manage and maintain required documentation.
- Develop strong supplier relationships.
- Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
- Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
What to Bring
- Bachelor's degree.
- 3--5 years professional experience.
- 1-3 years of purchasing experience.
- English fluent, and other language is a plus.
What Will Help
- Requires a person who is self-motivated.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office software.
- Oracle software experience.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of your time.
- Commodity specific experience and knowledge. Labor or IT software a plus.
- Automotive industry experience.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Gentex extends equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees regardless of an individual's race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), disability, marital status, military service, height, weight, genetic information, or any other reason protected by law.
Assistance
Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at. Gentex will not discriminate against any qualified individual who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Understand your right to work
At Gentex, we use E-verify to confirm you're authorized to work in the U.S.
Right to Work - English
Right to Work - Spanish
From Gentex Corporation's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 15, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
How Rolev.ai helps with this application
Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Indirect Buyer role at Gentex Corporation, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.
See how you fit
Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.
Tailor without inventing
Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.
Draft the full kit
Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.
1-Click Extension Autofill
The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.
Common questions
Where is the Indirect Buyer job at Gentex Corporation located?
This Indirect Buyer position at Gentex Corporation is located in Zeeland, MI. Always check Gentex Corporation's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
How do I apply for the Indirect Buyer position at Gentex Corporation?
This listing links directly to Gentex Corporation's Workday application page. You can apply directly on Gentex Corporation's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the Workday application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.