Buyer (PRP26407

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements

• Bring Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved
• Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company's quality system
• Identify and recommend new suppliers to develop globally to support business unit needs and lower costs
• Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery
• Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product's supplier and submit to manager
• Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested
• Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units
• Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for supplier recovery activities
• Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer's report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority
• Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management
• Notify expeditors of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP
• Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products
• Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions
• Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers
• Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department
• Notify finance department of new "ship-to" locations of suppliers
• Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist
• Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner
• Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management
• Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
• Give manager best advice
• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
• Exemplify Company Core Values:
  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
• Recommend viable improvements proactively
• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes