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Project Buyer (f/m/div.)
Robert Bosch LLC · 🇺🇸 Aveiro, Aveiro, PT
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 92 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 50 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Robert Bosch LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Senior Software Project Manager” (Information Technology Project Managers) in MI: $129k–$151k, median $146k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Robert Bosch LLC
The US Department of Labor certified 92 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 50 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Your contribution to something big: Team Leadership and People Development • Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization. • Translate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables. • Plan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations. • Conduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations. • Promote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions. • Ensure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities. Operational Project Purchasing and NPI • Act as Project Buyer for selected electronics development projects and represent commercial purchasing interests in the project team. • Drive supplier involvement from early design phases through sourcing decision, qualification, industrialization, and series launch. • Own project purchasing milestones, supplier deliverables, cost targets, and commercial readiness in line with project timing. • Coordinate RFQs, quotations, sourcing recommendations, negotiation packages, and award decisions with relevant stakeholders. • Identify and mitigate project risks related to capacity, lead time, tooling, lifecycle, localization, and supply continuity. • Ensure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of deviations affecting cost, quality, delivery, or launch readiness. Category, Supplier and Commercial Management • Guide purchasing activities for the assigned component scope, including passive and active electronic components and distribution channels. • Align supplier and category strategies across global and regional responsibilities, including tandem cooperation with APAC counterparts. • Lead or support price, contract, capacity, payment-term, and claim negotiations in line with global targets. • Drive cost transparency through benchmarking, cost breakdowns, design-to-cost, and value-engineering measures. • Monitor supplier performance and coordinate corrective actions or escalations with quality, logistics, engineering, and plants. • Support dual sourcing, localization, resilience, and lifecycle strategies for critical electronic components. Cross-Functional and Global Coordination • Act as the interface between Purchasing, R&D, Quality, Logistics, Controlling, manufacturing plants, and suppliers. • Coordinate with Global Category Managers, Regional Category Managers, and buyers to ensure clear ownership and consistent supplier communication. • Prepare concise management updates, decision proposals, and escalation summaries with clear business impact and required actions. • Contribute to continuous improvement of purchasing processes, standards, and cross-regional ways of working. What distinguishes you: What distinguishes you? Education • Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a comparable field. Experience • Relevant professional experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management , ideally within a technical or industrial environment. • Experience leading, coaching or developing purchasing professionals. • Experience in project purchasing and/or New Product Introduction (NPI) is highly valued. • Experience working with international suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization. • Experience within electronics or electronic components purchasing is a strong advantage. Know-how • Strong understanding of strategic and project purchasing , including RFQs, sourcing d