Buyer, Business

Responsible for the purchasing of all Primary & Secondary packaging components for our Client. Analyzes the packaging requirements and the supply base to develop high-quality, cost competitive strategies to support the company objectives. Will source and develop additional packaging suppliers. Direct responsibility for negotiation, creation of purchase contracts and releases and supplier on-time compliance. This will be done utilizing SAP.

Responsibilities:

• Execute procurement strategies and keep system data current
• Use SAP based purchasing tools to procure packaging needs
• Provide forecasts to suppliers and communicate frequently with approved suppliers
• Maintain accurate pricing, terms, and conditions for purchase orders
• Negotiation of all packaging portfolio
• Communicate with suppliers and maintain data accuracy within SAP
• Verify three-way Invoice matching to process invoices and resolve discrepancies
• Visit suppliers on an as needed basis
• Work closely with production, quality and research & development as needed to ensure high quality materials are available to support the current and future processes.

Qualifications:

• Associate Degree from an accredited college or university with 5+ years of purchasing and planning background in packaging or a related field OR Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with 3+ years of purchasing and planning background in packaging or a related field
• Food industry and Packaging procurement
• Microsoft Office Suite:
  Excel, Word, PowerPoint.