Buyer

Job Description:

Support the company’s goals and objectives through proper sourcing, price negotiation, conformance to quality and product specifications, and assurance of on-time delivery.

Duties:

• Statistical and analytical thinking to maneuver in the MRP world for procuring materials.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative data.
• Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
• Ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
• Ability to map processes of possible consequences of decisions, to work out the importance of individual factors and to choose the best course of action.
• Negotiates cost, specifications, and timelines with suppliers, ensuring beneficial agreements.
• Possess basic knowledge of supply chain activities, including transformation of natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer.
• Track and monitor inventory levels to determine what and when to procure materials required to support the manufacturing needs.
• Understand that supply and logistics is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
• Coordinate organization of purchases, scheduling, order placement, delivery, tolerances, and payment to ensure ongoing supply.
• Define, measure and track categories for spending to provide status vs. targeted goals.
• Collect and analyze organization-wide data to support cross-functional decision-making teams.
• Data input & provide updates to system for material & vendor status with regards to lead times, freight and payment terms, standard costing, specifications, and order quantity requirements.
• Communicate with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Maintain procurement records, such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Keep abreast of market trends, changes in business practices in the assigned markets, new or altered types of materials entering the market, etc.
• May work with manufacturers or persuade potential vendors to undertake the manufacturing of custom-designed items according to the user’s specific needs and specifications.
• May expedite delivery of goods to users.
• Utilize available computer system resources to carry out analysis to support management’s quest for performance improvement.
• Review and analyze information, forecasts, methods, schedules, systems, processes, and procedures.
• Determine most useful business solutions for the company.
• Recommend alternative solutions to management as to course of action that best meets the organization’s goals.
• Analyze requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing business systems.
• Confer with personnel of organizational departments involved to analyze current operational procedures and identify problems.
• Select the most appropriate analytical technique.

Requirements:

• BA/BS in business or equivalent work experience in related field within a manufacturing environment associated to the consumer-packaged goods industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs
• Deadline and detail oriented
• SAP knowledge a plus