Sr. Buyer

About the role

Salamander Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Buyer to join our growing business. The Sr. Buyer is accountable for delivering end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay services for direct/indirect materials categories and services in a manufacturing and operations environment. High level responsibilities include interacting/coordinating with suppliers, issuing POs, identifying process improvement opportunities, and order tracking and expediting.

This role offers high visibility and impact, providing an opportunity to expand your knowledge of procurement and supply chain management while applying it in a dynamic environment with a diverse set of stakeholders. This position requires on-site presence.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end Procurement, including PO execution and management, expediting and Invoice remediation and PO close-out.
• Coordinate purchasing demand and delivery priority in close collaboration with business partners ensuring alignment with group best practices.
• Monitor status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of potential issues.
• Expedite or defer orders as required based on schedule requirements.
• Coordinate vendor on-boarding process to ensure all documentation is provided and entered for set-up in MRP and accounting systems, keeping stakeholders updated on progress.
• Setup and maintain vendor catalogues enabling low-touch fast track PO placement for commodity products.
• Compliance with delegation of authorities, signing authorities, as defined for Salamander.
• Facilitate and manage Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA’s) with supplier and service providers with support from Legal.
• Ensure conformance with the project and department cost codes and financial requirements.
• Accountable for tracking delivery ETAs, ensuring goods receipt in the system and following through with PO close-out upon invoice payment.
• Collaborate with Engineering to create item numbers/descriptions for ERP and build high-level bill of materials for each project.
• Coordinate and support direct negotiations with shortlisted suppliers.
• Collaborate with Finance and Legal team to ensure resulting contract captures commercial intent, while minimizing risk exposure through use of proper terms and conditions.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or logistics is required. An advanced degree is a bonus.

Skills

• Experience in Procurement, purchasing across complete Procure-to-Pay cycle.
• Demonstrated experience in industry standard Procure-to-Pay systems such as Ariba, Coupa, D365, or Medius.
• Demonstrated understanding of delegation of authorities and signing authorities.
• Procurement experience across multiple categories including Raw Materials, MRO, Fabrication, Electrical, and Engineered equipment.
• Ability to work proficiently across global teams and multiple jurisdictions is highly desirable.
• Strong stake holder communication, influencing and written skills with attention to detail.
• High level problem solving, coordinating, organizational and time management skills.
• Effectively able to maintain discretion and confidentiality of company, customer, and vendor information as appropriate.

Experience

2-4+ years related procurement experience, preferably supporting manufacturing and operations in Oil and Gas. English language proficiency is required. Supply chain or purchasing certification (ISM or equivalent) is a bonus. Experience with ERP Procurement (Dynamics 365 a huge plus).