Commodity Buyer/Greater Cleveland - Hybrid based
Associated Materials Innovations · Cuyahoga Falls, OH · 1 mo ago
Full-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "Join the Associated Materials Innovations team at Associated Materials, LLC, and be AMazing with us! Who We Are ..." This is about the company, maybe "About the role"? Actually "Who We Are" is about the company. Could be considered "About the role"? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to map content to these headings.
We have:
- Position Summary: description of role. Could be "About the role". We'll put that under
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "Join the Associated Materials Innovations team at Associated Materials, LLC, and be AMazing with us! Who We Are ..." This is about the company, maybe "About the role"? Actually "Who We Are" is about the company. Could be considered "About the role"? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to map content to these headings.
We have:
- Position Summary: description of role. Could be "About the role". We'll put that under About the role
with a paragraph.
- Key Accountabilities: list of duties. That's responsibilities. Use - .
- Required Education, Experience & Skills: includes education, experience, skills, etc. Could be split into Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The posting includes: Bachelor's degree..., At least 5 years..., Strong interpersonal..., Experience in basic negotiation..., Ability to work..., At a minimum intermediate MS Excel..., Working knowledge of MRP/ERP..., Demonstrated abilities..., CPM or APICS a plus.
We can categorize: Requirements: Education and experience (Bachelor's degree, 5 years experience). Qualifications: maybe similar? But we can put under Requirements and Skills separate.
Better: Use Requirements for education and experience; Skills for specific skills (interpersonal, communication, negotiation, teamwork, Excel, MRP/ERP, process improvement). Qualifications maybe for certifications (CPM or APICS a plus). But we can decide to include only sections with substantive content.
We have no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule info. The posting mentions: "Click to learn more about benefits." but no details. So we should NOT include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections because they lack specific content. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. So we omit those.
Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Qualifications (maybe). But we need to avoid thin sections. Let's see if we have enough for each.
- About the role: Position Summary paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Key Accountabilities list (many items). Good.
- Requirements: Education and experience (Bachelor's degree, 5 years experience). Could also include "Ability to work in cross-functional teams" but that's skill. We'll keep Requirements as education + experience.
- Skills: Interpersonal/communication, negotiation, teamwork, Excel, MRP/ERP, process improvement.
- Qualifications: CPM or APICS a plus (certification). That's a qualification.
We could also include "Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems" as skill.
Thus we will output:
About the role
... (position summary)
Responsibilities
- ... each accountability
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Purchasing/Supply Chain Management, or Finance.
- At least 5 years of experience in Procurement in a high volume, highly complex manufacturing environment.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience in basic negotiation principles.
- Ability to work well in cross-functional teams in both plant and corporate environments.
- At a minimum, intermediate MS Excel skills are required.
- Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
- Demonstrated abilities to implement process change improvements and best practices.
Qualifications
- CPM or APICS certification a plus.
We must ensure we preserve all substantive information. Did we miss any? Let's review original text for any other specifics:
- "Under limited direction this position is responsible for targeting the best Total Cost of Ownership for products and services in specified commodities, providing leadership in supplier management, project management, the consolidation of suppliers and processes, cultivating supplier relationships, issue resolution and managing service level agreements for its' stake holders." That's part of Position Summary? Actually that is after Position Summary? The text: "Position Summary The Commodity Buyer role is designed for the procurement professional with a strategic vision to implement broad organizational goals within the concept of Total Cost of Ownership while operating across multiple product lines and facilities. Under limited direction this position is responsible for targeting the best Total Cost of Ownership for products and services in specified commodities, providing leadership in supplier management, project management, the consolidation of suppliers and processes, cultivating supplier relationships, issue resolution and managing service level agreements for its' stake holders."
Thus the Position Summary includes two sentences. We should include both in About the role paragraph.
Also "Key Accountabilities" list includes many items; we need to capture each as bullet.
Let's extract the Key Accountabilities list exactly as given:
- Effectively manage key suppliers via risk mitigation, scorecards and KPI's.
- Work within cross-functional teams on new product development and cost savings initiatives.
- Developing and achieving short and long-range operational objectives by maximizing cost savings while keeping in mind Total Cost of Ownership.
- Take a leadership role in Supplier Management and Monitoring efforts.
- Limit company exposure to obsolescence through life cycles of various products.
- Select and maintain suppliers to support manufacturing and corporate procurement requirements.
- Aide in the development of formal Commodity Strategies to align short-, medium-, and long-term goals align with the needs of the business.
- Support the building of Should-Cost models that outline product costs to help identify cost-out opportunities.
- Utilize P2P platform for vendor and contract management as well as on-line tenders and/or reverse auction exercises.
- Run Make vs. Buy scenarios that considers AM's vertical integration while leveraging third party opportunities.
- Qualify sources to support BOM of Manufactured Products.
- Ensure suppliers support effective inventory management through supplier performance monitoring and accurate PFEP's.
- Track and analyze vendor quality performance.
- Commodity tracking and analysis to help manage the strategic position of the company.
- Maintain appropriate vendor files and reports as required.
- Work with Product Management on new product development including the successful launch of said products.
- Support the management of Engineering Change Notifications and requests.
- Address Accounts Payable issues when escalated.
- Perform Supplier Risk Assessments to ensure new potential suppliers are viable and existing suppliers remain viable partners.
- Assist quality department in assessing the supplier's ability to meet AMI's quality requirements in part by participating in quality audits.
- Work with Materials Management and manufacturing plants to track supplier performance and share "best" purchasing practices.
- Work with Engineering on VA/VE opportunities.
- Other duties as assigned.
We need to preserve all. We'll bullet each.
Now Required Education, Experience & Skills: we need to capture all items:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Purchasing/Supply Chain Management, or Finance.
- At least 5 years of experience in Procurement in a high volume, highly complex manufacturing environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience in basic negotiation principles.
- Ability to work well in cross-functional teams in both plant and corporate environments.
- At a minimum, intermediate MS Excel skills are required.
- Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
- Demonstrated abilities to implement process change improvements and best practices.
- CPM or APICS a plus.
We split as earlier.
Now "About Us" paragraph: "When you join AMI, you are part of a leading North American manufacturing business of vinyl windows, cladding, metal siding, trim and other essential exterior building products for residential, light commercial and multifamily projects. In 2022, we introduced our composite cladding system, a first-of-its-kind solution featuring exclusive (GP)2 technology. Headquartered in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, AMI is part of Associated Materials, LLC, which owns and operates 10 manufacturing facilities in North America including a distribution center. Associated Materials Innovations ... Building Products Better Associated Materials, LLC."
This is company overview; could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we have no heading for "About the company". The instruction only allows those specific headings. We could incorporate this into About the role paragraph as extra context. It's substantive; we should preserve it. So we can add to About the role paragraph after the position summary.
Thus About the role paragraph will contain both the Position Summary and the About Us description.
Now we must not include boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Remove.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's craft.
We'll need to escape apostrophes? It's fine.
We'll produce:
About the role
The Commodity Buyer role is designed for the procurement professional with a strategic vision to implement broad organizational goals within the concept of Total Cost of Ownership while operating across multiple product lines and facilities. Under limited direction this position is responsible for targeting the best Total Cost of Ownership for products and services in specified commodities, providing leadership in supplier management, project management, the consolidation of suppliers and processes, cultivating supplier relationships, issue resolution and managing service level agreements for its stakeholders. When you join AMI, you are part of a leading North American manufacturing business of vinyl windows, cladding, metal siding, trim and other essential exterior building products for residential, light commercial and multifamily projects. In 2022, we introduced our composite cladding system, a first-of-its-kind solution featuring exclusive (GP)2 technology. Headquartered in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, AMI is part of Associated Materials, LLC, which owns and operates 10 manufacturing facilities in North America including a distribution center.
Responsibilities
- Effectively manage key suppliers via risk mitigation, scorecards and KPI's.
- Work within cross-functional teams on new product development and cost savings initiatives.
- Developing and achieving short and long-range operational objectives by maximizing cost savings while keeping in mind Total Cost of Ownership.
- Take a leadership role in Supplier Management and Monitoring efforts.
- Limit company exposure to obsolescence through life cycles of various products.
- Select and maintain suppliers to support manufacturing and corporate procurement requirements.
- Aide in the development of formal Commodity Strategies to align short-, medium-, and long-term goals align with the needs of the business.
- Support the building of Should-Cost models that outline product costs to help identify cost-out opportunities.
- Utilize P2P platform for vendor and contract management as well as on-line tenders and/or reverse auction exercises.
- Run Make vs. Buy scenarios that considers AM's vertical integration while leveraging third party opportunities.
- Qualify sources to support BOM of Manufactured Products.
- Ensure suppliers support effective inventory management through supplier performance monitoring and accurate PFEP's.
- Track and analyze vendor quality performance.
- Commodity tracking and analysis to help manage the strategic position of the company.
- Maintain appropriate vendor files and reports as required.
- Work with Product Management on new product development including the successful launch of said products.
- Support the management of Engineering Change Notifications and requests.
- Address Accounts Payable issues when escalated.
- Perform Supplier Risk Assessments to ensure new potential suppliers are viable and existing suppliers remain viable partners.
- Assist quality department in assessing the supplier's ability to meet AMI's quality requirements in part by participating in quality audits.
- Work with Materials Management and manufacturing plants to track supplier performance and share "best" purchasing practices.
- Work with Engineering on VA/VE opportunities.
- Other duties as assigned
About the role
... (position summary)
Responsibilities
- ... each accountability
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Purchasing/Supply Chain Management, or Finance.
- At least 5 years of experience in Procurement in a high volume, highly complex manufacturing environment.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience in basic negotiation principles.
- Ability to work well in cross-functional teams in both plant and corporate environments.
- At a minimum, intermediate MS Excel skills are required.
- Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
- Demonstrated abilities to implement process change improvements and best practices.
Qualifications
- CPM or APICS certification a plus.
About the role
The Commodity Buyer role is designed for the procurement professional with a strategic vision to implement broad organizational goals within the concept of Total Cost of Ownership while operating across multiple product lines and facilities. Under limited direction this position is responsible for targeting the best Total Cost of Ownership for products and services in specified commodities, providing leadership in supplier management, project management, the consolidation of suppliers and processes, cultivating supplier relationships, issue resolution and managing service level agreements for its stakeholders. When you join AMI, you are part of a leading North American manufacturing business of vinyl windows, cladding, metal siding, trim and other essential exterior building products for residential, light commercial and multifamily projects. In 2022, we introduced our composite cladding system, a first-of-its-kind solution featuring exclusive (GP)2 technology. Headquartered in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, AMI is part of Associated Materials, LLC, which owns and operates 10 manufacturing facilities in North America including a distribution center.
Responsibilities
- Effectively manage key suppliers via risk mitigation, scorecards and KPI's.
- Work within cross-functional teams on new product development and cost savings initiatives.
- Developing and achieving short and long-range operational objectives by maximizing cost savings while keeping in mind Total Cost of Ownership.
- Take a leadership role in Supplier Management and Monitoring efforts.
- Limit company exposure to obsolescence through life cycles of various products.
- Select and maintain suppliers to support manufacturing and corporate procurement requirements.
- Aide in the development of formal Commodity Strategies to align short-, medium-, and long-term goals align with the needs of the business.
- Support the building of Should-Cost models that outline product costs to help identify cost-out opportunities.
- Utilize P2P platform for vendor and contract management as well as on-line tenders and/or reverse auction exercises.
- Run Make vs. Buy scenarios that considers AM's vertical integration while leveraging third party opportunities.
- Qualify sources to support BOM of Manufactured Products.
- Ensure suppliers support effective inventory management through supplier performance monitoring and accurate PFEP's.
- Track and analyze vendor quality performance.
- Commodity tracking and analysis to help manage the strategic position of the company.
- Maintain appropriate vendor files and reports as required.
- Work with Product Management on new product development including the successful launch of said products.
- Support the management of Engineering Change Notifications and requests.
- Address Accounts Payable issues when escalated.
- Perform Supplier Risk Assessments to ensure new potential suppliers are viable and existing suppliers remain viable partners.
- Assist quality department in assessing the supplier's ability to meet AMI's quality requirements in part by participating in quality audits.
- Work with Materials Management and manufacturing plants to track supplier performance and share "best" purchasing practices.
- Work with Engineering on VA/VE opportunities.
- Other duties as assigned