What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Ascendo?
With frequent direction from or consultation with buyer and senior buyer co-workers, contact, communicate, establish and develop relationships with suppliers, internal customers and the strategic group. With frequent direction from or consultation with buyer, buyer II and senior buyer co-workers, ensure availability of the correct parts, quantities and deliveries of purchased goods and services to satisfy production needs, business plans and financial constraints.
Major Responsibilities :
Create, place and maintain purchase orders for materials and assists with the coordination of material and part delivery
- Assists with the review and status reporting of assigned open purchase orders and status of delivery of those parts or materials
- Assists with corrective and appropriate actions on schedule conflicts or delays in delivery of required materials to ensure satisfaction of production needs
- Anticipate, identify and communicate issues to appropriate internal and external parties
- Act as liaison between internal customers and external suppliers for engineering issues, quality issues, delivery issues
- Coordinate activities to address and resolve quality issues including processing to recover currency
- Maintain files, system parameters, records and generate periodic reports for distribution and review.
- Provides direct assistance as required to other buyers and supervisor to fulfill financial control and risk management as well reconciling delivery and quantity issues with supplier invoices
- Safety - Maintain departmental housekeeping and 5S standards, perform job functions in a safe manner, wear all PPE required by Company Policy were required, know & follow established job specific and facility wide safety & health procedures and rules, participate in safety and health training & demonstrate competency based on training received, and bring safety and health issues, unsafe acts, and safety suggestions to management's attention or correct those you can.
Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, and we welcome and celebrate diversity. Ascendo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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Edward Beller
