Buyer

Position: Buyer

Location: South Plainfield, NJ

Company Overview

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value…

Azenta Life Sciences is seeking a Buyer to join our growing and dynamic organization. Reporting to the Procurement Manager for the Multiomics and Synthesis Solutions business known as GENEWIZ, this position will provide support to the Global Multiomics organization. The buyer will work closely with the line of business leaders, finance and other counterparts to provide timely and actionable information regarding purchasing materials, supplies and equipment. In this strategic role, the buyer will manage and track spend for the business and perform associated day to day tasks.

This critical position within the Multiomics procurement team holds key responsibilities including monitoring of purchase orders, management of inventory levels, negotiation, weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reporting of spend, and assisting the Procurement Manager in achieving overall procurement goals.

What You’ll Do…

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain an orderly system to track direct materials for the business
• Manage vendor data base and support vendor setup process in Netsuite
• Ensure management of target inventory levels
• Support and participate in price negotiations with vendors
• Drive to PPV savings and cost savings targets
• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of materials to sites
• Identify and manage supply chain risks, communicate with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate risks
• Drive initiatives and continuous process improvement to help the team to become more efficient and effective
• Generates internal management reports for weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reporting of spend

This role will have the opportunity for development and learning by assisting with the following:

• Annual planning processes with respect to development of direct materials spend targets
• Leading data, process and reporting improvement initiatives
• Partnering with business leaders to address pain points and challenges
• Broad spectrum of negotiation discussions
• Continuous improvement to the Multiomics procurement process

What you will bring…

• This position requires 2 years of relevant experience (purchasing demand /production planning within a manufacturing environment)
• Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, APICS certification (CPIM) preferred
• Requires the ability to operate with a sense of urgency, prioritize assignments and be self-directed
• Experience with Lean / Continuous Improvement teams and activities
• Expert capability in modern sourcing principles
• Strong preference for a candidate with knowledge of Netsuite based planning system
• Strong preference for a candidate with experience in Life Science Services industry

• Ability to analyze cost effectiveness and make sound commercial / business decisions
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to handle multiple competing priorities for multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Working Conditions/ Schedule

• Hybrid - South Plainfield, NJ (aligned to company policy 4 days in office)
• Occasional travel may be required (not expected to be more than 5%)

EOE M/F/Disabled/Vet