Jobs · Purchasing · Florida

Buyer Sr.

Blue Origin · Merritt Island, FL · 3 wk ago
On-sitePurchasing$96k–$135k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes introductory paragraphs about vision, role description. We need to use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when there is real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: Application Close Date, EEO, legal, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive information: responsibilities, qualifications, etc. Also benefits, pay range. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract content: Intro: "At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Global Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across Blue Origin facilities. We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. As part of a small, passionate, hardworking, and accomplished team of experts, you will support the performance of day-to-day tactical purchasing functions for various construction and facilities projects as well as provide support for a small team of buyers. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of supplier communications, products, equipment, and services pricing, quality, and schedule and will be responsible for supplier management and performance. You will serve as a primary point of contact and escalation for your assigned procurements. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight." That's a lot of repeated sentences; we need to preserve all substantive info but can we deduplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must keep all info, but we can combine duplicate sentences? It says do not summarize away detail. Removing duplicate sentences might be considered summarizing away detail? However duplicates are redundant; but they are still substantive info. The instruction about removing duplicated lines: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we can remove duplicated lines. So we should deduplicate repeated sentences. Thus we can keep a concise version but ensure we keep all unique info. Let's extract unique statements: - At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. - We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. - Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! - This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. - This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Global Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across Blue Origin facilities. - We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. - This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. - Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. - As part of a small, passionate, hardworking, and accomplished team of experts, you will support the performance of day-to-day tactical purchasing functions for various construction and facilities projects as well as provide support for a small team of buyers. - You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of supplier communications, products, equipment, and services pricing, quality, and schedule and will be responsible for supplier management and performance. - You will serve as a primary point of contact and escalation for your assigned procurements. - This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. We can combine similar sentences: "This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight." and later "This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight." They are similar; we can keep one but maybe keep both? Since they are duplicated lines, we can remove duplicate. So keep one. Now Responsibilities section: starts after "Responsibilities". Let's extract: "Our Buyer Sr will ensure program requirements are appropriately prioritized and executed to meet the needs of Blue Origin. They will be competent in Blue Origin Supply Chain and Federal Acquisition Regulations compliance standards, strategies, and initiatives. They have excellent oral and written skills, and solid communication skills. They also have experience preparing and issuing Requests for Proposal / Requests for Quote, writing price reasonableness determination / price analyses in support of supplier proposals, and have led formal negotiations of all types (pricing, terms and conditions, scope of work, schedule, etc.) Our Buyer Sr is experienced in constructing various contracting types for major procurement activities to meet the requirements of the programs and needs of the business to include long range procurement agreements, sourcing partnerships, continuous improvement initiatives, and identification of opportunities for enhanced efficiencies. They take ownership of the procurement process from requisition creation through final payment of invoices and are accountable to resolve issues within this process. They will lead the identification, implementation, negotiation, execution, and management of strategic agreements (i.e., Long Term Agreements (LTAs), Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)) where mutually beneficial. They will support the overall procurement organization's strategic direction and ensure corporate strategic objectives are achieved to include delivery of production materials that are on time, within budget, and meet technical performance requirements. Key candidate attributes to facilitate success in this role include influencing, facilitation, presentation, communication, process development, analysis, and problem solving. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!" We can keep as is. Qualifications section: after "Qualifications". Let's extract: "Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Management, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field with a minimum of 10 years of tactical experience in procurement / supply chain; Master's degree in Business Administration / Management, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related filed with a minimum of 7 years of tactical experience in procurement / supply chainInterprets and applies company policies, procedures, work instructions, business standards and U.S. government regulations, i.e., FAR, DFAR, SOX ComplianceStrong analytical skills, data driven with experience in establishing and tracking program metricsAbility to perform written price reasonableness determinations / price analyses using various pricing methods and data sourcesAbility to develop negotiation plans and act as the lead negotiator in negotiations of all types, including, but not limited to, pricing, terms and conditions, FAR / customer contract flowdowns, schedule, scope of workWorking understanding of AS9100 quality management system requirementsAbility to interpret engineering data such as specifications, drawings, & supplier statements of work, and make suggestions internally to our customers & externally to our suppliers based off this dataExperience working with other than Firm Fixed Price contract typesTrack record of effectively working with large, single / sole source suppliersTrack record of working in ambiguous, development-type programs, and ability to define processes that can scaleExperience in procurement of avionics, machined parts, raw materials, and / or major subcontractsAbility to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum Desired Experience with Costpoint, Coupa, JIRA Atlassian software, TableauCertified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) CertificationProject Management (PMP) CertificationExperience working with Certified Cost or Pricing DataExperience supporting US Government proposals" We need to separate into maybe Requirements and Qualifications? The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have qualifications list; we can put under Qualifications. Requirements maybe overlapping. We could treat the bullet list as Requirements. But we need to decide. We have a lot of qualifications; we can put them under Qualifications. Maybe also Skills: we can extract skills like influencing, facilitation, presentation, communication, process development, analysis, problem solving, etc. But we can also put under Qualifications. We need to avoid thin sections; better to have a few substantive sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. We have Pay: "Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $96,074.00 - $134,502.90 Other Site Ranges May Differ". That's specific pay info, so include Pay section. Benefits: "Benefits Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details." We need to include Benefits section. Schedule: not mentioned; we should not include Schedule if not present. Now we need to remove boilerplate: Application Close Date, EEO, Culture Statement, Export Control Regulations, Background Check, etc. Also remove duplicated lines like "At Blue Origin, we envision millions..." duplicates. Now produce HTML fragment with

headings and

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  • . We need to decide how to format responsibilities: likely as
    • each bullet. Qualifications: maybe as
      • . Benefits: as
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          (maybe multiple paragraphs). We'll combine into one

          with sentences. Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine unique statements. Unique statements list: - At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. - We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. - Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! - This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. - This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Global Supply Chain, Facilities,

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