Descripción

MRO Buyer

This role will execute and monitor the planning and purchasing process for new products across a multi brand platform. The role will work closely with the Sourcing teams, PMO teams and Engineering teams on establishing best practices in procurement strategies of new products.

Responsibilities:

• Procures supplies, materials, services, tooling, and equipment for delivery at specified time or location.
• Places and updates purchase orders for NPI launches, manages delivery of products and ensures timely delivery to eliminate potential for backorders and stockouts.
• Works with the PMO team to update schedule on deliveries to ensure launch timelines can be achieved.
• Works with the Sourcing specialist on capacity planning and equipment requirements.
• Manages any subcontracting process related to NPI launches.
• Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the fulfillment cycle.
• Advises team of any actual or potential material shortages. Works with Sourcing and Engineering to resolve any potential issue that may impact launch dates.
• Ensures suppliers have complete product information to meet product quality standards and deliveries for production and assists with the PPAP process.
• Monitors performance of buyer KPIs and develops/executes improvement actions.
• Tracks individual complete and on-time delivery (COT) performance, assigns reason codes for order fulfillment failures, and drives actions to improve future performance for assigned commodities.
• Tracks and resolves material review board (MRB) parts and resolves supplier non-conformances and cost recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience in international supply chain management, or equivalent education.
• Minimum 3+ years of procurement experience in Buying/Sourcing.
• Working knowledge of international trade.
• BA/BS degree in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in Excel.
• Experience working with ERP systems or equivalent knowledge.
• Knowledge of material requirement planning, inventory control techniques, forecasting, production planning, RFQ, RFP, and RFI processes.