Buyer (PRP26407

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negate with suppliers to achieveoptimalcost, quality, and service and to meet commercial

requirements

Role Accountabilities

• Bring Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions,and implement as approved
• Research new equipment suppliersutilizingthe 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 andsubmitto 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 ofqualityand prepare for supplier recovery activities
• Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report thatidentifiesthe requisitions to be processed anddetermineorder of priority
• Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management
• Notify expeditors of orders which must beexpeditedin 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 andsubmitto 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
• Providetimelyupdates 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

General Employee Accountabilities

• 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

Requirements

• - Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• - 2 years of experiencepurchasingin an industrial or commercial environment
• - 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers
• - Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• - Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• - Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• - Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP
• - Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of experience negotiating agreements
• Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment
• Advanced Excel skills
• Proficiency in Oracle

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