Senior Buyer

Key Job Responsibilities

• Daily review and analysis of MRP planning workbench, supply and demand details, quantities and timing; schedule orders accordingly for all part families.
• Maintain optimum levels of inventory to support production and sales requirements.
• Analyze daily MRP runs for shortages and issues.
• Act as liaison between Purchasing, Engineering, Customer Support, Inventory facilitating quick communication.
• Review and communicate to Purchasing any material shortages as reported on MRP, Pick Lists, or found during the picking process.
• Confer with vendors to expedite deliveries of materials to eliminate difficulties and delays in Supply Chain and manage the lead times.
• Respond within one to two hours to all requests from Production and Customer Service regarding shortages and/or parts availability.
• Daily Purchasing “superuser” for Oracle applications: Purchasing, MRP and Supply Chain modules (includes maintaining Item Master).
• Utilize Oracle to determine what shortages exist and the best channel to resolve them.
• Ensure product availability and continually seek best pricing for all part families.
• Ensure suppliers perform to high standard of price, delivery and quality.
• Review invoice discrepancies and take any corrective action.
• Maintain physical inventory accuracy working with a cross-functional team including Purchasing, Inventory Control/Receiving, Engineering, Production and Customer Support.
• Attend bi-weekly Production meetings.
• Requires attending conference call meeting outside normal working hours with overseas suppliers.
• Periodic international travel/visits to vendors as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time to international vendors.
• 6 to 8 years’ experience in Purchasing/Procurement.
• Mandatory Manufacturing Industry experience including use of Supply Chain and ERP/MRP technology applications (Oracle or SAP preferred).
• Strong background in procurement is required.
• Lighting Industry experience preferred.
• This position will be responsible for participation in the transition from an Oracle based applications system to a SAP based application system in the next 12 months.
• Individuals need to be flexible and have used a purchasing application to process their work.

Pay

The salary range for this position is between $90,000 and $100,000 annually, based on prior skills and experiences.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, prescription drug insurance.
• 401k with match.
• Life, AD&D, short term disability.
• Vacation, sick and holidays.

Contact Information

Please submit your resume for consideration to medelstein@amerlux.com.

About the Role

Amerlux, a leader in architectural lighting, designs and manufacturing of innovative interior and exterior lighting solutions for commercial, retail and supermarket sectors is looking for a Senior Buyer to join our team in our Oakland NJ facility. This position requires being on-site five days per week. The Senior Buyer is an important position responsible for a 10,000+ purchased parts inventory in a fast-paced global Lighting industry. The position reports directly to the Manager of Purchasing and rolls up to the COO. This position is responsible for the purchasing/procurement processes supporting the successful manufacturing and assemble-to-order of the company’s custom and architectural lighting solution products. This position will also support non-production purchasing needs of the company.