Buyer Sr-Retail Operations

Cirrus Aircraft is the recognized global leader in personal aviation and the maker of the best-selling SR Series piston aircraft and the Vision Jet™, the world’s first single engine Personal Jet and recipient of the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy. Founded in 1984, the company has redefined performance, comfort and safety in aviation with innovations like the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®) – the first FAA-certified whole-airframe parachute safety system included as standard equipment on an aircraft.

To date, worldwide flight time on Cirrus aircraft has passed nine million hours and over 170 people have returned home safely to their families as a result of the inclusion of CAPS® as a standard feature on all Cirrus aircraft. The company has three locations in the United States, located in Duluth, Minnesota, Grand Forks, North Dakota and Knoxville, Tennessee.

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The Senior Buyer is responsible for coordinating and managing the global procurement and supply chain tactical procurement activity across all categories in retail operations. The activities this role is responsible for are requisition placement and processing, PO processing, PO rescheduling, inventory review and management, processing returns to the supplier, mitigation of increases, expediting merchandise and eliminating shortages through proactive actions, weekly metric tracking, process improvements etc.

This role is responsible for supporting a cross-functional team to achieve annual goals and objectives of the retail operations team and understanding the terms of the long-term agreements with the supply base. They serve as the primary interface between the retail floor, ecommerce and the suppliers.

• Proficient with all Buyer responsibilities plus
• Increase retail profit by increasing inventory efficiency, product margins and revenue sales
• Warehousing, merchandising processioning and e commerce fulfillment
• Inventory balancing across multiple brick and mortar expressions plus on-line inventory needs
• Support cross functional needs with cost effective product options and appropriate merchandise selections
• Coordinate internal actions between supplier and
• Drive effective inventory management to support financial data points
• Analyze and manage MRP schedules and ensure timely PO
• Support event and promotional calendar with appropriate merchandise plans
• Coordinate transportation and logistics methods with input from the supplier and coordinating department to ensure merchandise is identified correctly and delivered in a cost-effective manner.
• Monitor cost, schedule, and retail
• Drive supplier reviews with the supply
• Coordinate with aircraft teams to ensure product viability and life cycle
• Implement a schedule of pricing and markdowns to promote appropriate product life cycle
• Work with employee stores and satellites to create a yearly product schedule
• Drive new product creation across all product categories
• Coordinate and monitor incoming supplier shipment to ensure compliance to Cirrus
• Create and maintain weekly purchasing metrics that measure supplier and department
• Participate in continuous improvement and enterprise excellence projects and
• Able to support all retail functions across the purchasing, fulfilling and selling platforms
• Create debit/credit memos as required
• Provide advanced communication on potential inventory problems that could affect enterprise issues
• Investigates new cost savings ideas with appropriate stakeholders and drive decision making with appropriate business information from a cross-functional team
• Support data gathering for quarterly business reviews with strategic suppliers
• Monitor risk within the supply base
• Solve problems and issues and track program
• Develop and utilize project KPI’s to drive results to meet annual goals and objectives
• Represent Cirrus in a highly professional manner internally and externally

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or S.) in Supply Chain/Operations and 4-7 years of tactical sourcing experience in the procurement field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Effective negotiation, communication, decision making and problem-solving
• Experience in current ERP and purchasing platforms
• Event planning and fulfillment experience
• Program/Project management experience
• Good organizational skills and the ability to coordinate between disparate
• High attention to detail and
• Timely completion of scheduled
• Excellent and professional communication skills in all forms and formats (public speaking, team meetings, PowerPoint, memos, emails, charters, internal/external, etc.).
• Exceptional facilitation skills to bring a…