Intermediate Buyer

Key Responsibilities And Essential Functions

• Identifies, manages, escalates, and mitigates risks in the supply chain, such as delivery delays, quality issues, and cost fluctuations, to ensure operational goals are met and aligned with business strategy.
• Drive dedicated efforts to identify and implement significant cost reduction opportunities through data-driven analysis, sourcing events, supplier rationalization and consolidation, bulk buy initiatives, payment term negotiation, and other supplier negotiation/resourcing initiatives.
• Identify and develop strategic supplier partnerships to leverage buying power, foster mutually beneficial relationships, and optimize costs.
• Stay informed about key industry trends and raw material fluctuations and provide actionable recommendations for strategic sourcing decisions to minimize cost impacts.
• Generate and issue purchase orders to suppliers based on sales orders, production schedules, and demand forecasts to maintain inventory levels and prevent shortages.
• Cook up cross-functional supply chain activities, working closely with internal teams to ensure on-time fulfillment of customer requirements.
• Supports inventory management activities.

Required Skills

• Customer focused.
• Able to conduct themselves appropriately and professionally.
• Drive for continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to build strong relationships with customers, suppliers and co-workers.
• Detail-oriented.
• Mechanical aptitude and strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities with strict deadlines.
• Ability to analyze, identify & then follow up to resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to make sound decisions and seek buy-in from others.
• Strong work ethic with a positive attitude.
• Ability to decipher the immediacy of problems and determine an effective resolution for the issue.

Desired Qualifications And Experience

• Associate’s degree or higher
• 5+ years’ Experience in a Manufacturing Environment
• Knowledge of inventory databases and shipping programs
• Good customer service & communication skills
• Strong analytic / problem solving skills
• Must be able to pass background and drug screening