Buyer

Job Description

Specific Requirements:

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with partners, suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers.
• Review and plan materials forecasting and usage and ensure supplier understanding of PO requirements for long-term product availability.
• Prepare and submit the required documentation to establish credit terms with vendors and contractors.
• Monitor and track the quality of service provided and supplier performance, driving improvements in timely delivery, quality conformance, and compliance.
• Compose POs, verify availability, coordinate delivery dates, monitor shipments and back orders, expedite deliveries, and communicate status and ETAs to the team and partners to support target production dates.
• Maintain and update procurement data in the ERP system
• Ensure sufficient stock quantities are maintained to support demands.
• Assess the life of inventory (regular, aging, excess, EOL, etc.) and prepare reports to upper management regularly.
• Maintain cross-functional communication to ensure awareness of material additions, changes in specifications, and supplier changes.
• Identify cost-reduction opportunities.
• Suggest improved ways of working, introducing new processes or revising existing ones in support of key priorities.
• Resolve vendor returns, cost recovery, and replacements.
  
  

The above description identifies only the primary duties pertaining to this position. Additional tasks are performed, as required, and do not significantly alter this description.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering, or similar field; or a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in procurement
• Demonstrated experience buying domestically and internationally, including knowledge of buying strategies, supplier relations, and cost control
• Demonstrated experience in demand forecasting techniques
• Strong mathematical skills, including the ability to work with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to accurately produce inventory forecasts
• Strong negotiation, communication, and relationship-building skills to secure favorable terms and foster collaboration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with proven ability to analyze and present findings in a clear and cohesive manner.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Strong knowledge of planning/procurement ERP system modules
• Process-oriented with a strong drive for continuous improvement
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Verbal & Written Fluency: full business language fluency, including correct spelling and grammar.
  
  

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of ERP systems such as Infor LN 10.7
• CPSM, APICS, or other procurement/supply chain certification
• Strong knowledge of INCO terms
• Experience in a matrix organization
• Experience in product and supplier qualification processes and procedures
  
  

Benefits: 401k w/ company match after 6 months, Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, flexible schedule, life insurance, tuition reimbursement