Descripción

We are looking for a Sr. Buyer.

Job summary

Responsible for the procurement of higher impact, technical or more complex purchasing, managing vendor performance and compliance, identifying and resolving routine to complex purchasing issues and reviewing plans to determine if changes need to be made to the projections.

Key responsibilities

• Purchases higher impact or , technical or more complex materials to ensure supplies meets the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) "planned order" requirements to support demand and on-time delivery of domestic and global demand requirements.
• Managing Suppliers in the electronics and electrical commodities categories.
• Ensures international, subsidiary and miscellaneous demands are accurately incorporated into monthly purchases as required by the business unit.
• Responsible for order placement and vendor management of delivery schedules.
• Identifies potential issues, and ensures disconnects such as anticipated product shortages, non-conforming material and excess or obsolete materials are continuously monitored and resolved.
• Identifies risks, develops alternative solutions and assesses impact on product delivery to present optional solutions. Communicates issues and resolutions to internal teams including sourcing and product management.
• Manages day-to-day vendor performance and fulfillment. Evaluates and monitors contracts to ensure that vendors and suppliers comply with expectations, contract terms and the conditions of the contracts and to determine the need for changes. Clearly communicates expectations to suppliers and monitors compliance with contracts to ensure compliance.
• Assists in the development of partnership arrangements with suppliers to manage internal inventories and vendor consigned inventories to reduce inventory ownership and lead times. Performs inventory analysis when required.
• Troubleshoots/analyzes quality issues and collaborates with internal and external teams to obtain resolution. Focuses to drive down the overall freight expenses, material liability and cost of managing materials.
• Develops key reports with measurement and benchmark information to improve purchasing and supplier management processes.
• Reviews the annual forecast plan for requirements, and participates with planning to ensure inventory availability. Additionally, participates in determining disposition of excess and obsolete materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain management, purchasing or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in purchasing.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to work well with teams.