Buyer (PRP26407)

About the Role

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service to meet commercial requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business unit needs to mitigate supply and delivery risks for assigned products, recommend solutions, and implement as approved.
• Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company's quality system.
• Identify and recommend new global suppliers to support business unit needs and lower costs.
• Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on-time delivery.
• Gather data to manage performance evaluations of assigned suppliers and submit to manager.
• Negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial agreements with suppliers as requested.
• Recommend risk assessment and abatement plans to meet budgets, targets, and schedules for presentation to business units.
• Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality, and prepare for supplier recovery activities.
• Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report to identify requisitions and determine order priority.
• Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery in collaboration with business unit management.
• Notify expeditors of orders requiring expedited processing beyond ERP scheduling.
• Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products.
• Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions.
• Reconcile purchase order and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers.
• Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to the finance department.
• Notify the finance department of new supplier "ship-to" locations.
• Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist.
• Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner.
• Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management.
• Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company.
• Demonstrate full effort on tasks assigned by manager and provide best advice.
• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified.
• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager.
• Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment.
• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures, as well as regulations and laws.
• Recommend viable improvements proactively.
• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience.
• 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment.
• 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility.
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and ERP systems.
• Availability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of experience negotiating agreements.
• Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Proficiency in Oracle.

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