Lead Buyer/Planner

The Role

The Opportunity QuidelOrtho unites the strengths of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, creating a world-leading in vitro diagnostics company with award-winning expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing, clinical chemistry and transfusion medicine. We are more than 6,000 strong and do business in over 130 countries, providing answers with fast, accurate and consistent testing where and when they are needed most – home to hospital, lab to clinic. Our culture puts our team members first and prioritizes actions that support happiness, inspiration and engagement. Join us in our mission to transform the power of diagnostics into a healthier future for all.

Responsibilities

• Development of material purchase plans and preparation of quote requests and purchase orders for the timely and economical purchase of goods and services in consideration of cost, quality and delivery metrics.
• Point of contact for suppliers, ensuring purchase order adherence, facilitation of expedites/de-expedites.
• Establishment and maintenance of appropriate material safety stock levels.
• SAP maintenance of material master data, purchase orders, planned delivery dates, settling of invoice discrepancies.
• Attendance on daily production / planning meetings, providing updates as required.
• Leadership of cross-functional initiatives / projects focusing on departmental and business unit goals.
• Deployment of problem-solving techniques to identify and mitigate root causes on issues pertaining to material shortages, process improvement, and risk mitigation.
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

Required Skills And Behaviors

• Advanced level expected in: Understanding assigned category and its intricacies, suppliers and special cases.
• Knowledge of Raw Material integration points between production planning (PP) and materials management (MM) as well as ERP systems (SAP, Ariba) and other business tools, such as Power BI.
• Terms and conditions and its implications, payment terms, Incoterms.
• Internal Standard Operating Procedures, including but not limited to quality, master data management, product lifecycle management, order management.
• Building excellent relationships with key internal and external customers based on trust and respect.
• Understanding cost breakdown, price formation and working capital to support prediction and explanation of variances, as well as negotiations.
• Leading projects and cross-functional action plans to manage crises and for continuous improvement initiatives.
• Deploying problem resolution techniques to manage crises (supply risks, payment disputes) and to continuously improve following lean techniques and learned lessons.
• Clearly communicating results of analyses in verbal and written format as well as illustrating trends by utilizing supply plan templates and graphical charts.
• Ability to use ERP systems (SAP), Power BI and common data software (such as MS Excel) to review and manipulate data as required.
• Ability to utilize EDI fundamentals for supplier integration as well as emerging technologies.

Preferred Skills And Behaviors

• Thorough understanding (Super User Level) of SAP Source-to-Pay and Materials Management workstreams to support troubleshooting occasional issues as well as process improvement initiatives.
• Highly adaptable, with appetite to identify and resolve issues before they become crises.
• Always “speaks with data” to respectfully substantiate his/her opinions and decisions.