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Buyer III, Material Planning

Mercury Systems · Hudson, NH · 3 wk ago
PurchasingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 headings for sections present: About the role? The job summary is like "Job Summary". Could map to "About the role". Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe "Qualifications" includes required and preferred). Benefits, Pay, Schedule if present. The posting includes benefits description, schedule mention (9/80 alternative work schedule). Pay: they mention salary determination factors but not actual numbers; we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It says "Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers..." That's not a specific salary figure; it's generic. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. For Pay, they didn't give a specific number or range; they just describe factors. That's likely considered filler, so we should NOT include Pay section. For Schedule, they mention "Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)". That's a specific schedule description, so we can include Schedule section. Benefits: they list many benefits; we can include Benefits section. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, scam warning, etc. Also remove navigation, cookie, legal, duplicated lines. Also remove application instructions. Also remove the "Why should you join Mercury Systems?" etc? That's promotional but maybe keep as part of About the role? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The "Why should you join Mercury Systems?" is substantive? It's marketing but could be considered part of About the role. However they said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Why should you join..." is not boilerplate; it's company description. Might be okay to keep as part of About the role. But we need to decide sections: About the role (job summary). Responsibilities (list). Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred Qualifications). Benefits. Schedule. We should not repeat job title as heading. So no h3 for "Buyer III". Use h3 for sections. We need to use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract. Job Summary: "A Buyer III is to negotiate and place custom mechanical related orders with manufacturers, suppliers or service providers of goods and services per MRP and CPSR requirements. To continually strive for best cost and most economical ways to meet requirements. To then manage open orders whether it be expediting to meet changing requirements, monitoring on time delivery and any supplier or material issues that arise. All the above, as it relates to the Aerospace/Defense Industry." That's prose; we can put in

    under About the role. Responsibilities: The block after "Job Responsibilities" is a long sentence with many items separated by periods. We need to break into list items. Let's parse: - Obtain quotes; negotiate with suppliers, source items with suppliers per MRP and CPSR requirements. - Purchasing of custom mechanical goods, materials, and services to meet company operational needs. - Considering: price, quality and delivery and ensuring continuity of supply. - Documenting, order placement, order maintenance, resolution of invoice issues and order follow up. - Procurement activity is high dollar value and high impact to business needs. - Complex requirements requiring negotiations. - Procurement knowledge of custom mechanical material per print. - Meet departmental key performances indicators and weekly standard of work with cost saving, supplier management, on time delivery and inventory management. - As well as expediting critical shortages. - Develop and maintain consistent and effective communication with vendors. - Multi-task and problem solve for resolution of discrepancies between invoices and purchase orders. - Provide support for documentation of returned material between quality and suppliers. - Support internal stakeholders while achieving maximum cost effectiveness. - Responsibility for a specific product and/or range of services across varied commodities and end uses. - Close interaction with Planning, Engineering, Production, Accounts Payable, Quality Management, Business Development and leadership across the corporation. - Demonstrate the ability to think strategically, work independently as well as a team and critically analyze details. - Supplier engagement early in the development phase and ensuring all cost targets are met. - Communications with Program Management and leadership are expected. We'll make each bullet as

  • . Required Qualifications: list: - Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent. - Typically requires 4+ years of hands-on experience purchasing or planning custom mechanical goods. - ERP/MRP Experience. - Familiar with government contract purchasing (CPSR) and understanding of DFARS and FAR flow downs. - Ability to multi-task and work in a flexible, changing, and fast-paced environment with multiple competing deadlines. - Effective communication and collaboration skills with Engineering, Planning, Production, and Quality teams. - Strong Microsoft Office skills. Preferred Qualifications: - Technical knowledge of Procurement/Sourcing. - Experience in defense industry. - Experience with Oracle. Also there is the export regulation statement: "This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government." This is substantive; maybe include under Requirements or a separate section like "Eligibility". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Could put under Requirements or Qualifications. Since it's about eligibility, maybe put under Requirements as a bullet. Benefits: list: - bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions) - health, life and disability insurance - company-paid holidays and time off - 401(k) retirement plan - discounted employee stock purchase plan - tuition reimbursement - access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including LinkedIn Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse - Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards. Schedule: "Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)". That's a sentence; we can put in

    under Schedule. Also there is "Why should you join Mercury Systems?" paragraph describing mission etc. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "About the company". Not in allowed headings; we could incorporate into About the role as additional prose. Also "Our Culture" paragraph; could be part of About the role as well. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. So remove that. Now construct HTML:

    About the role

    Job Summary: A Buyer III is to negotiate and place custom mechanical related orders with manufacturers, suppliers or service providers of goods and services per MRP and CPSR requirements. To continually strive for best cost and most economical ways to meet requirements. To then manage open orders whether it be expediting to meet changing requirements, monitoring on time delivery and any supplier or material issues that arise. All the above, as it relates to the Aerospace/Defense Industry.

    Why should you join Mercury Systems? Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

    Our Culture We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

    But we might be duplicating; maybe better to keep About the role as just the job summary; the rest could be omitted? However instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to keep those paragraphs. Could we put them under About the role as multiple

    elements? Yes. Now Responsibilities:

    Responsibilities

    • Obtain quotes; negotiate with suppliers, source items with suppliers per MRP and CPSR requirements.
    • Purchasing of custom mechanical goods, materials, and services to meet company operational needs.
    • Considering price, quality and delivery and ensuring continuity of supply.
    • Documenting, order placement, order maintenance, resolution of invoice issues and order follow up.
    • Procurement activity is high dollar value and high impact to business needs.
    • Complex requirements requiring negotiations.
    • Procurement knowledge of custom mechanical material per print.
    • Meet departmental key performance indicators and weekly standard of work with cost saving, supplier management, on time delivery and inventory management.
    • As well as expediting critical shortages.
    • Develop and maintain consistent and effective communication with vendors.
    • Multi-task and problem solve for resolution of discrepancies between invoices and purchase orders.
    • Provide support for documentation of returned material between quality and suppliers.
    • Support internal stakeholders while achieving maximum cost effectiveness.
    • Responsibility for a specific product and/or range of services across varied commodities and end uses.
    • Close interaction with Planning, Engineering, Production, Accounts Payable, Quality Management, Business Development and leadership across the corporation.
    • Demonstrate the ability to think strategically, work independently as well as a team and critically analyze details.
    • Supplier engagement early in the development phase and ensuring all cost targets are met.
    • Communications with Program Management and leadership are expected.
    Now Requirements/Qualifications: We could have a section "Requirements" containing both required and preferred? Or separate "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Allowed headings include Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could use "Requirements" for required, and "Preferred Qualifications" for preferred. Or combine under "Qualifications". Let's do two sections:

    Required Qualifications

    and

    Preferred Qualifications

    . Both are allowed headings? The list includes Qualifications, Skills. It didn't list Required Qualifications explicitly but we can use Qualifications as heading and then split? The instruction: "use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So they gave examples; we can use those exact headings. So we should use "Requirements" and "Qualifications" maybe. But we have both required and preferred; we could put required under Requirements, preferred under Qualifications. Or we could put all under Qualifications and separate with

    but better to follow examples. Thus:

    Requirements

    • Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent.
    • Typically requires 4+ years of hands-on experience purchasing or planning custom mechanical goods.
    • ERP/MRP Experience.
    • Familiar with government contract purchasing (CPSR) and understanding of DFARS and FAR flow downs.

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