Buyer II

Position Summary

The Buyer II is responsible for planning, quoting, negotiating pricing, and purchasing inventory and materials in support of the master schedule build plan with their assigned suppliers and/or commodities. This position typically requires 5-10 years of previous experience as a Buyer within a manufacturing environment.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Primary liaison between SIG SAUER and suppliers for all tactical and strategic matters.
• Responsible for keeping supplier contact information current in Oracle EBS.
• Pull all documentation and send out quote requests to suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier quotes and awards accordingly.
• Track orders from placement through delivery and adjust delivery schedules as needed based on SIG needs and supplier commits.
• Review and action MRP messages.
• Understand MRP messaging and the impact of attributes such as lead times, order modifiers, and sourcing rules on MRP messaging.
• Create and maintain discrete and blanket purchase orders.
• Issue releases against blanket purchase orders based on MRP Messaging or ION Requisitions.
• Manage open orders with suppliers and keep PO promise dates in line with supplier commits.
• Research questionable MRP signals with some assistance from Planning, Sr. Buyer, or management.
• Identify inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement with existing item attributes.
• Own item attributes such as processing and fulfillment lead times, order modifiers, and Buyer name, and is responsible for maintaining through SCMaster Data requests.
• Review Engineering Change Orders, identify PO liability and vendor wipe positions for effectivity decisions and revision update timelines, assign item attributes, and notify affected suppliers of changes.
• Update which location items are purchased into, perform all required buyer actions (per Buyer standard agile work) prior to acknowledgement, submit sourcing rule and ASL change requests for implementation, understand when to add self at implementation in a workflow and use comments as a communication and reminder tool within Agile; review Agile change orders daily to prevent stalling of changes.
• Collaborate with warehouse and Logistics as well as MRB personnel on inventory discrepancies and transactions.
• Provide analytical support for projects as needed.
• Contribute to and actively volunteer for Continuous Improvement projects/tasks.
• Participate in and sustain 5S Standards.
• Communicate effectively to supervision regarding problems and corrective action. Present possible solutions when notifying management of an issue.
• Monitor and escalate material shortages or overages.
• Monitor receiving activities and quickly resolve receiving issues.
• Lead discussions with suppliers regarding performance contributing to stalled receipts and inventory growth; escalate as needed to management.
• Collaborate with Planning to ensure business continuity is maintained during the material disposition process.
• Process returns to supplier in a timely fashion.
• Must follow all required Safety and ISO procedures.

Education/Experience & Skills

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Associates degree or 5-10 years of previous experience as a Buyer within a manufacturing environment required.
• Previous working experience with FARS and DFARS required.
• ITAR experience strongly preferred, especially with technical data transfer.
• Working knowledge of item attributes and their effects on MRP messages.
• Ability to read and understand Engineering Drawings.
• Experience with purchasing and planning commodities such as raw material, forgings, molded plastics and swiss, lathe, vertical and horizontal machined parts is strongly preferred.
• MIM experience a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) is required.
• Purchasing or Planning experience with ERP systems, such as Oracle/ASCP is required.
• APICS certification preferred.

Miscellaneous duties as assigned.