Buyer II - Bracco Medical Technologies

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The Buyer II manages the planning, sourcing and procurement efforts of a challenging set of commodities through source selection, planning, and order management processes. This role supports sourcing efforts for pre-production and production materials including both the piece part and required tooling and services. This role also leads communications with suppliers to support ongoing sourcing and manufacturing relationships, including managing and presenting during business reviews with critical suppliers, identifies cost improvement opportunities, ensuring each supply partner meets performance standards, and monitor the extended supply chain to deliver products globally a best possible value.

• Supply Planning and Inventory Management Plan orders of pre-production and production parts from inputs including but not limited to: SAP MRP system, sales forecasts, production plans, commodity lead times, safety stock requirements, lot sizes, service part demand, etc. Parts to be assigned by management are considered more challenging than those parts that would typically be assigned to a Buyer I role.
  
  Longer lead times, higher supplier quality and financial risk factors, technical complexities, etc.
• Analyzes trends in technologies and market conditions with respect to assigned commodities. Partners with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations Analyst, etc. to gather and refine the timeliness and quality of required data in order to perform accurate and timely analysis.
• Develops cost models for presentation of proposed orders. Consistently monitors supply to optimize on-hand inventory Executes against targeted metrics for performance evaluation on critical performance areas Order Management.
• Responsibility for direct and indirect materials within assigned commodities Determines the order management policies at the part level and maintains the ERP process parameters to send the correct replenishment messages. Manages the procurement and delivery of assigned commodities from suppliers This includes expediting orders as necessary to avoid/resolve line-down situations, managing transitions to new part revisions, and re-schedules product receipts when excess inventory is on-hand.
• Creates and Manages requests for quotes Executes blanket orders to ensure maximum cost savings for ACIST whenever possible Researches and selects/recommends suppliers Performs supplier capacity reviews Maintains and monitors supply schedules Creates and manages purchase orders Approve change orders associated with assigned commodities Resolves issues with receipts and invoices Monitors Supplier Performance.
• Manages Supplier Corrective Actions (SCAR’s) Coordinates dispositions of NCMR’s Manages the return of products to suppliers. Identifies and leads process improvement efforts to improve quality and reduce costs of order management processes and systems, e.g.; partner with engineering to present new part alternatives that could reduce cost, improve quality or maintain supply continuity. Executes orders for non-inventory items when necessary.
• Supplier Performance & Relationship Management Monitors and ensures the performance of suppliers is functioning as planned and can accommodate long range growth targets. Establishes and maintains business relationships with suppliers that result in consistent supply security and the capability to grow and develop our products. Implements strategies with direction of management for goals on assigned commodities which support company objectives for quality, cost, and supplier development.
  
  Cultivates relationships with key partners including regular communication and business reviews with direction of management to resolve open issues and identify and drive continuous quality and cost improvement activities with key suppliers.

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