What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Buyer position at DENTALEZ?
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Senior Buyer is responsible for placing, tracking and expediting material, services, and equipment purchases for DentalEZ, Bay Minnette location manufacturing purposes. This is a senior level purchasing position that will work with established and potential new suppliers, leading strategic sourcing initiatives to identify and successfully qualify new suppliers for DentalEZ. The Senior Buyer will have daily interaction with the manufacturing team, accounts payable, customer service, engineering and quality to ensure accurate, timely and quality delivery of materials, services, and equipment. The Senior Buyer will take the lead in specialty purchasing roles, collaborating with the Purchasing & Supply Chain Manager, and other internal stakeholders to generate exceptional results.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Utilizing the Oracle MRP system, the primary responsibility is to efficiently drive all purchasing functions to include placing and expediting orders in the MRP system; perform purchase order entry; resolve purchase order problems and conduct follow-up activities as necessary to finalize purchase order transactions
- Lead strategic sourcing efforts to identify potential new sources for materials, services, and equipment, resulting in improved quality, delivery, and pricing. Eliminate single source supplier situations wherever possible, resulting in increased sourcing capability and enhanced negotiation leverage.
- Identify and implement and record potential cost reductions, working in a team environment with the Supply Chain Manager, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Manufacturing.
- Drive strategic initiatives through the use of a vendor score card system to maximize the value of key supplier working relationships, resulting in improved communications, quality and delivery performance, and measurable cost reductions.
- Solicit and evaluate supplier proposals for completeness, compliance to specs, price, conformance to quality standards and schedule. Prepare and present clear and accurate benchmarked quotation comparison summaries.
- Solicit and evaluate supplier proposals for completeness, compliance to specs, price, conformance to quality standards and schedule. Prepare and present clear and accurate benchmarked quotation comparison summaries.
- Prompt regular attendance is required. This position is an "On Site" working location.
QUALIFICATIONS :
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability an d veteran status.
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