Buyer

Key Requirements:

3-5 years of experience as Buyer position and exposure Fulfillment/Material Planning/Inventory.

Education: Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Logistic or related field.

KEY SKILLS:

1. Procurement Execution:
-Issue purchase orders
-Analyze prices and negotiate with suppliers
-Follow up with suppliers and track orders until delivery
2. Fulfillment Management:
-Process and understand the expediting of materials
-Knowledge of incoterms

Behavioral Skills:

1. Cross-Departmental Collaboration:
-Ability to work effectively with various departments and handle different inputs
2.Sense of Ownership and Urgency:
-Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership over tasks
- Acts with urgency to meet deadlines and project requirements
3. Proactive Problem-Solving:
- Proposes ideas and executes them independently
- Able to solve conflicts and face daily challenges effectively
management.

Main Accountabilities:
- Respond to RFQ’s on timely manner to meet the sales & Marketing deadline.
- Responsible to maintain the material master data for the parts in service organization.
- Responsible for timely creation of material procurement plan to meet the production and customer demand.
- Accountable to review and create the purchase requisitions in timely manner.
- Ownership to get the purchase orders released in the timely manner without affecting the supplier lead times.
- Accountable to make sure that material is available as per the production plan and customer requirement by fol-lowing up with suppliers on timely manner and to maintain good supplier On-time Delivery (OTD)
- Accountable to maintain the safety stock in SAP for a better material availability.
- Responsible for communicating the concerned departments with all the related information regarding the material availability.
- Accountable to keep the optimal inventory in site and in transit to meet the Net working Capital (NWC) KPI’s of the organization.
- Responsible for Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt (GRIR), Baseware and CIT process and supplier are paid on time to maintain the good relationship with suppliers.
- Perform supplier on boarding process as and when needed as the per Hitachi Energy guidelines.
- Timely escalation of issue with the suppliers to respective hub Category manager for timely resolution.
- Coordinate with GBS on PO creation, material follow up, payment process and other activities and keep a balance in the work load between site planner/buyer and GBS.
- Perform stock transfers from Production to service as and when needed.
- Keep track of the activities and KPI’s for monthly reporting purposes.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

• Ownership & Performance: timely reaction with proper communication
• Collaboration & Trust: Excellent networking skills to collaborate with all the stack holders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and intercultural communication skills with the demonstrated ability to drive change through team, facilitating and influencing skills
• Strong customer focus
• Strong SAP knowledge and experience
• Full understanding of planning, procurement and logistics process.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $45.00 - $48.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Buyer: 3 years (Required)
• S4 HANA: 2 years (Required)
• Purchase Order: 2 years (Required)
• Order management system: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $45 - $48