What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Chelten House Products, Inc.?
The Buyer will support the procurement strategy development and implementation for all assigned categories. This individual will ensure quality of materials, competitive pricing, and adherence to company policies and procurement processes. This role will be accountable for developing and maintaining a seamless relationship with strategic vendors and oversight for vendor quality programs to meet our standards and specifications.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Buyer Responsibilities:
- Manages inventory levels to achieve established targets.
- Monitors Days Forward Cover and Weeks of Supply levels working together with Logistics to ensure that inventory is available to support production.
- Manage VMI and off site inventory programs with key suppliers
- Review material demand reports and prepare purchase orders
- Ensure accurate pricing, quantity, and delivery dates for all purchase orders
- Develop Strategic Supplier Relationships to jointly drive value beyond cost, leveraging supplier capability to deliver both top and bottom line business benefit.
- Drive development of ‘Should Cost Models’ for all categories to support supplier negotiations
- Evaluate strategies based on changing market conditions and provide inputs during strategic sourcing activities, including internal and external analysis and negotiations
- Drive development of cost savings/value add initiatives with suppliers
- Ensure consistent and accurate cost saving tracking to support the Supply chain targets
- Support the development and implementation of best practice Procurement work processes across the Procurement organization
- Ensure quality of materials, competitive pricing, adherence to company policies, Procurement processes and endeavors related to the operation of a proactive and strategic Procurement Business Unit.
- Ensure a deep understanding of supply markets and cost drivers
- Coordinate Supply Chain initiatives including working capital management and minimizing obsolescence
- Thorough understanding of the industry and markets that impact cost, supply and demand
- Support the commercialization process with product lifecycle management for assigned categories
- Support category strategies that effectively balance business unit requirements and ensure consistent and quality availability of supply.
- Administer solid control systems around purchasing and risk management activity.
- Ensure all assigned contracts are executed timely and accurately.
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise from established supplier list
- Review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods to be purchased
- Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes
- Follow-up, expedite, delay or modify purchase orders as needed based upon inventory levels and scheduling changes
- Communicate with Vendors any changes, issues, or concerns
- Handle claims with Vendors for damaged or non-conforming in a timely manner
- Follow orders from purchasing to invoice approval, tracking and documenting the entire process
- Work cross functionally within the organization including Commercialization, Product Development, Engineering, Operations, and Quality
- Develops cost savings scenarios, articulates key decisions and recommendations to Supply Chain Leadership team highlighting service, inventory and cost tradeoffs
- Analyze historical and forecasted usage to recommend annual contract volumes
- Manage slow moving and obsolete/end of product lifecycle activities for assigned categories in coordination with the warehouse and quality teams to identify and execute depletion strategies.
- Leads continuous improvement projects for assigned categories .
- Manages assigned categories throughout the entire supply chain and communicates risks or disruptions to Supply Chain leadership team.
- Work with product development team, to identify and approve new vendors
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Business required with related work experience or internships in food manufacturing OR equivalent years of experience
- Minimum of 1 year of related procurement, supply chain, or buyingexperience
- Food manufacturing and ingredient buying experience preferred, but will also consider manufacturing experience in other consumer packaged goods industries
- Previous experience with MRP systems is preferred
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Business or Operations experience, with solid quantitative skills
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
- Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills
- Ability to build strong supplier relationships and influences long-term supplier technology and resource allocation
- Master negotiator, consistently achieves win-win outcome in negotiations
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and prioritize under pressure
- Solid communication skills concentrated on data gathering, meeting facilitation and data dissemination
- Good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload
- Demonstrates the ability to create and manage cross functional relationships
- Knowledge of purchasing and new industry trends and approaches as well as an understanding of the commodities that impact cost and supply
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