About this role
Buyer SR
- Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions.
- Coordinates purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning and engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner.
- Processes purchase requisitions, purchase change orders and requests for quotes to suppliers.
- Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity; creates and maintains bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprise wide systems.
- Participates in maximizing the procurement teams' changes, part parameters; quote table maintenance, supplier database information, error report analysis, and part number/supplier code information.
- Performs cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities (e.g., materials, components, equipment and services).
- Monitors the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to negotiate highest quality at best value.
- Develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.
- May recommend cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis or alternative sourcing.
- Interacts closely with suppliers and QA to resolve quality issues.
- Works with management to address all aspects of commodity management, including procurement support, commodity business plans, market trends assessment, pricing, and product availability.
- Requires domestic or global expertise of assigned commodities.
- A seasoned, experienced professional with complete understating of principals, concepts, practices and standards.
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Typically requires a degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience.