Buyer (Direct)

Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.

Job Purpose

The Buyer (Direct) position is responsible for purchasing materials, supplies and/or equipment, including negotiating favorable terms and conditions with suppliers, executing purchases in a timely manner, researching possible item selections and processing purchase orders.

Duties and responsibilities

• Forecast and communicate engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.


• Process purchase orders.


• Generate and publish key process indicators and track total landed cost targets.


• Help identify preliminary critical parts and inspection requirements.


• Performs make/buy analysis and identifies opportunities.


• Analyze BOM cost to identify cost reduction opportunities through design, content reduction/should cost and commercial means.


• Facilitate early engagement between supplier and drive manufacturability, repeatability cost and lead time.


• Develop lead time mitigation strategies.


• Work with supplier to identify their ability to expand capacity to support volume manufacturing.


• Drive dual sourcing activities to mitigate supply risk.


• Present sourcing, costs, lead time reduction, capacity initiatives to key stake holders, management, and internal customer.


• Coordinating with stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure contracts that are developed mitigate risk and deliver competitive advantage by knowing and following all established Company contracting policy and procedures.


• Establish and execute strategy for assigned commodities.


• Formulate annual business plans for achievement of cost reductions and year over year supplier performance improvement: price, delivery & quality standards.


• Initiate renegotiation efforts well in advance of contract expiration and monitors industry trends to anticipate opportune timing to lock-in contract advantages.


• Obtain and analyze quotes to determine best value, then recommends global sourcing solutions based on data and facts collected through sound data sources and site visits.


• Familiar with engineering and operations supply requirements through regular contact, visits, and participation in product life cycle as well as program management meetings.


• Familiar with key cost drivers and industry related events to assigned category.


• Monitor performance of the suppliers to ensure attainment of objectives in quality, delivery, service, and cost.


• Coordinate supplier selection and leads supplier transitions.


• Monitor compliance with supplier contractual requirements.


• Identify opportunities for global leverage of volumes and purchasing power.


• Ensure and monitor the results and contribution, of the assigned commodity, to departmental and corporate objectives.


• Ability to Analyze and differentiate cost of price and cost of quality.


• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, needed, or required for the business.

Qualifications

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications include:

Education, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, business, or related discipline


• 5 years of related experience


• NetSuite experience preferred

Skills and Abilities 

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to work with people at all levels within and outside of the organization in a professional manner.


• Excellent problem-solving skills, including ability to identify and resolve issues and challenges.


• Strong team player, able to work effectively on cross-functional teams.


• Strong personal computer skills required, including experience with MS Office, & Oracle software.


• Ability to manage order to pay process from start to finish.


• Must understand the importance of seeking improvements in Cost, Quality and Delivery performance in supplier selection and contracting.


• Purchasing experience in a JIT manufacturing organization where process uptime is key, “get it done attitude”.

Role Classification and Working Conditions

This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.

We are not accepting candidates who require sponsorship for this position at this time. 

Benefits: 

• Medical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options


• Dental Plans, with buy-up option


• Vision Plan


• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options


• Short Term Disability, paid for by the company


• Long Term Disability, paid for by the company


• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)


• Health Savings Account (HSA)


• 401k/Roth 401k


• Voluntary Accident Plans


• Voluntary Critical Illness Plans


• Hospital Indemnity Plan

Hyliion is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.