Purchasing Buyer - Contract

Monday-Friday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm.

1. General Overview:

Responsible for purchasing raw materials, supplies, or equipment for a business.

2. Role and Responsibilities

1. Provide internal customer purchasing support to all areas of Operations (Including: Sales, Production, R&D Engineering, Quality, and Finance) Manage your suppliers to assure on-time delivery and consistent quality.

2. Purchase Order Management (Process Purchase Order Requisitions from external departments; to suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers as requested).

3. Obtain competitive costs from suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers and perform cost walk analysis. Source and Certify new suppliers with the assistance of the Procurement Agent.

4. Comfortable Negotiating Cost and Cost Reduction Strategies with Suppliers.    Resolve issues related to inventory returns, and replacements.

5. Build Strong Supplier Partnerships and Managing Existing Supplier Relationships. Purchasing requisition items per procedure.

6. Action-orientated in every part of the Purchasing Workflow Process (quoting, placing orders, following up on order placements, expediting orders, providing order updates to requesting department and program management and confirmation of received orders). Keeps department reports updated.

7. Advanced awareness of industry trends that may affect purchasing requirements (lead times) and raw material impacts (metals, adhesives, plastics, force majeures, material allocations, etc.) and understanding of how to navigate risks.

8. Advanced awareness of industry logistical trends and affects (lead times, etc.) on purchased deliverables and future required deliverables.

9. Work with the receiving department and quality control, to ensure goods received are accurate in quantity, part number, description, etc., and are free of damage.

10. Work with Quality Control, Suppliers, and Logistics companies to resolve any incoming product or material discrepancies and/or damage.

11. Entry and extraction of data from MRP System "Visual", reporting, and planning.

12. Updating safety stock requirements per management approval and direction. 

13. Material expediting and lead-time risk assessments (managing force majeures, raw material allocations, etc.).

14. "Visual" System data inputs for greater data alignment, informational consistencies, and conformity for each supplier/vendor ID.

15. Supplier development, audits, compliance, and scorecard management.     

16. Support and obtain supplier sub-tier supply chain information and work with senior buyers and purchasing managers to assess risks within the supply chain.

17. Facilitating incoming and secondary processes (incoming and outgoing material lead-time planning and logistics.

4. Qualifications and Education Requirements

• 2-3 yrs. Experience

• High School Diploma

5. Preferred Skills

• 3-10 yrs. Experience as a Purchasing Junior Buyer or Senior Buyer Excellent math skills

• Bachelor s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or APICS Certification

• Infor "Visual" MRP/ERP Experience (or other ERP/MRP use experience SAP, Oracle, Nav Dynamics, etc.).

• Strong knowledge in economic trends in material process services and purchasing of raw materials

• Prior industry experience in Automotive, Aerospace, and/or Medical Industry

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools and Google Applications

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