Supply Chain Procurement Specialist (Buyer)

Responsibilities

• Review project material requirements and on-hand inventory, identify purchasing needs, obtain competitive quotations, and issue purchase orders.
• Monitor open purchase orders and supplier commitments.
• Conduct supplier status meetings and partner with suppliers and production schedulers to ensure deliveries are timely, which may require reprioritizing delivery dates.
• Partner with Receiving and Accounts Payable departments to resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain exceptional transactional accuracy by validating part numbers, revisions, specifications, quantities, pricing, lead times, delivery dates, and other purchase-order details.
• Communicate with suppliers to ensure engineering changes are accurately communicated to suppliers.
• Manage multiple time-sensitive requirements simultaneously, continually reassessing priorities based on customer, project, production, and business-cost impact.
• Partner with suppliers to identify supply risks, and communicate potential project impacts to Production, Materials Management, Engineering, Quality, and other stakeholders.
• Take ownership of purchasing and supplier-related issues from identification through resolution.
• Partner with other departments to investigate root causes, coordinate corrective actions, and implement sustainable improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Updated and maintain accurate procurement data within the ERP system.
• Use the data to monitor purchasing performance, identify trends and exceptions, prioritize actions, and make decisions related to supplier performance, cost, quality, delivery, and risk.
• Analyze spending patterns, lead times, and supplier performance to identify cost-saving opportunities and areas for operational improvement.
• Partner with Supply Chain Analysts and other cross-functional stakeholders to advance broader supply-chain strategies and initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or eliminate manual and repetitive activities.
• Build scalable processes, document improvements, and share knowledge so that routine work becomes increasingly efficient for the betterment of the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, operations, engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of detailed, time-sensitive work while balancing multiple priorities and deadlines using sound judgment and adaptability when several needs are urgent.
• Demonstrated experience using data to identify issues, support decisions, and make process improvements.
• At least two years of procurement experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Strong ownership, follow-through, organization, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using Oracle or another ERP system is preferred.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, corrective actions, or continuous-improvement methods is preferred.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, bills of material, specifications, or revision-controlled documents is preferred.
• Advanced Excel, reporting, data-visualization, or workflow-automation skills are preferred.