What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Pureflow Inc?
Buyer
About Our Organization:
With over 38 years of experience providing high purity water solutions, Pureflow is committed to serving clients by designing, building, installing, and maintaining water purification systems in a broad range of commercial and industrial markets. We understand that a successful business needs quality employees. We are seeking highly talented and motivated candidates to join our company where people, integrity, and excellence are essential to our culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for negotiating components, equipment, supplies from vendors/suppliers
- Accurately enter purchase orders into ERP system with expected ship date upon issuance of order
- Improve purchasing procedures and controls document and implement procedures
- Expedite supply and prioritize suppliers to meet emergency, short lead time, demands according to service, project and inventory supply needs
- Work with internal customers to expedite and resolve supply issues
- Provide delivery dates to project managers, service, and operations
- Accountable for Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s): On Time Delivery; PO Backlog; PO Accuracy (ship date, price, account, etc.); Premium Freight
- Qualify, source, and negotiate, with an emphasis to identify cost reduction opportunities with suppliers
- Continuously evaluate the performance of the current supply base, map and identify new suppliers and establish and maintain relationships with the key suppliers
- Daily interaction with engineering and suppliers
- Manage sourcing activities in project phase and act as the main interface towards suppliers and internal projects during the entire project phase
- Be an active member in the network of Project Buyers
- Measure key supplier performance and drive resolution to issues by understanding supplier capacities and capabilities
- Drive elimination of supplier defects received, and process returned material within 48 hours
Job Responsibilities:
- 5-8 years of direct purchasing experience in an OEM environment
- Proven experience within materials management situations (inventory control, physical inventory and logistics)
- Strong working knowledge of mechanical items and electrical components
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited school or US Military in Business Administration, Materials Management, Accounting, or Logistics preferred
- Competent computer skills with ERP system, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Ability to organize, evaluate, prioritize tasks, risks, resources, milestones and deliverables
- Self-starter and ability to multi-task in fast paced environment
Perks:
- Competitive base salary
- Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Health Savings Account (with company contributions), and more
- $1 for $1 401k match up to 4%
- 9 Company-paid holidays
- Generous personal time off that increases with tenure
- Education assistance
- Employee referral bonus program
- Ongoing training and development by internal and external industry experts
