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Senior Buyer

ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions
Pittsburgh, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/30/2025
CMS

At ZOLL, we're passionate about improving patient outcomes and helping save lives. We provide innovative technologies that make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Our medical devices, software and related services are used worldwide to diagnose and treat patients suffering from serious cardiopulmonary and respiratory conditions.

ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions Offers a Unique Portfolio Of Novel Technologies Designed To Deliver Better Insights And Better Outcomes. On Any Given Day, Clinicians Utilize These ZOLL Products For Tens Of Thousands Of Cardiac Patients Around The World

  • LifeVest, the world first wearable defibrillator, has been trusted to protect more than 1M patients at risk of sudden cardiac death.
  • HFMS (Heart Failure Management system) is a non-invasive, patch-based device that monitors pulmonary fluid levels and has been shown to reduce heart failure readmissions rates by 38 percent.
  • TherOx Super Saturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy is the first FDA-approved therapy since the stent 20 years ago to reduce infarct size in patients with the most severe heart attacks.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. At ZOLL, your work will help to ensure cardiac patients get the life-saving therapy they need.

ZOLL has been Pittsburgh's Manufacturer of the Year, one of Western PA's Healthiest Employers, and even one of Pittsburgh's Coolest Offices. But it's our unique opportunity to impact people's lives that makes ZOLL the ideal place to build your career.

Job Summary

The Senior Buyer role is responsible for some of the most strategic and critical supply partners to ZOLL. Position requires a professional who has strong abilities to build relationships, effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, work in a collaborative manner, manage competing priorities and influence others while working in a dynamic and fast paced business environment.

Essential Functions

  • Owns the performance management and development of suppliers to meet specified KPI targets and goals including the administration of supplier evaluation and review programs.
  • Supports supplier compliance to agreements within the scope and authority of the position.
  • Supports the development of strategic supplier relationships to leverage suppliers that support and drive business strategies.
  • Roll out and lead strategic replenishment discussions with suppliers. Align ABC stratification, lead time, optimize shipment and delivery schedules, MOQ and optimal order quantity review, and align demand forecast with supplier production planning.
  • Implement stocking strategies and agreements with supply partners to optimize inventory positioning, improve on time delivery performance, and develop agility in supply and production capabilities.
  • Resolves problems effectively by identifying and analyzing key information from multiple sources; facilitating root cause analysis and proactively anticipating potential issues and implementing processes to prevent.
  • Create clear and concise performance improvement plans that communicate root cause, actions taken, and an accurate recovery date.
  • Applies expertise to research and recommend cost saving opportunities, presents opportunities to management and stakeholders and works with the department management to gain acceptance, and drive effective cost savings programs.
  • Perform ad hoc reporting and projects for department manager.
  • Participate in continuous improvement projects and lean philosophy initiatives.
  • May provide training and/or mentoring to new employees.

Required/Preferred Education And Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree In Supply Chain Management, Mathematics, Business, Information Technology, required
  • Industrial Engineering with at least five (5) years of total experience; Required required and
  • At least three (3) years of experience in a Product Supply discipline; required

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, organizational, and interpersonal skills;
  • Ability to influence other members of the organization to help achieve goals and increase performance;
  • Ability to build relationships and partnerships within the organization;
  • Ability to manage projects of high complexity with no or limited direction;
  • Demonstrated problem solving abilities;
  • Strong attention to detail;
  • Knowledge and experience with manufacturing operations strongly preferred.

Physical Demands

  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Conditions

  • This position is generally performed in a typical office environment that is usually quiet. Employee is expected to work collaboratively with team members, as well as able to work independently with limited supervision. Work will require significant computer and telephone work.

ZOLL is a fast-growing company that operates in more than 140 countries around the world. Our employees are inspired by a commitment to make a difference in patients's lives, and our culture values innovation, self-motivation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Join us in our efforts to improve outcomes for underserved patients suffering from critical cardiopulmonary conditions and help save more lives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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