Buyer

Job Description

Job Description

At-a-Glance:

Are you ready to build your career by joining an international fire, HVAC and security equipment company? If so, our client is hiring a Buyer.


Position Type:

• Contract
• On-Site

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years’ experience in purchasing/planning role.
• Direct buyer experience in a manufacturing company (metal-mechanic, refrigeration, electronic or HVAC industry).
• Experience working with Purchasing, Planning and Production areas.
• Fluent English.
• MRP (materials requirement planning).
• Knowledge of SAP (preferably).
• Experience in a manufacturing planning program and production sequences.
• Leadership skills.
• Proactive.
• Schedule availability.
• Team work.
• Service attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong decision-making, communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Responsibilities:

• Develop suppliers and intercompany plants (feeders), execute savings projects.
• Assure that an adequate supplier is assigned to each purchased item and support expediting processes with suppliers to assure that direct material is supplied in a proper time and that it will meet the delivery dates to minimize the risk of an inventory stock-out or revenue impact.
• Support in other supplier related activities such as quality escalations, ISO requirements, internal projects and engineering changes related to purchased items.
• Analyze MRP demand and replenish stocks timely.
• Place Purchase Orders (PO / STO) on time to suppliers and feeder plants.
• Get confirmation dates or estimated time of arrivals (ETA) for all POs.
• Assure the correct receipt in our ERP system (SAP).
• Attend Daily Production Meetings.
• Execute in a regular basis, the exception messages.
• Align with suppliers/feeders plants requested date in PO/STOs to avoid impacts in Production.
• Review status of open lines and avoid past due of purchase orders.
• Communicate any risk related to purchased items and shortages to Planning and Production area.
• Escalate issues with Global Procurement or Regional Materials through the correct channels (JIRA process).
• Be able to analyze line of balances (LOB) when vendors have issues.
• Analyze monthly forecast and send it to suppliers/feeders plants.
• Assure that problems relating to delivery, pricing and invoicing are promptly conveyed to the vendor and resolved in a timely manner.
• Monitor vendor performance & on time delivery for Suppliers.
• Support other areas to assure proper feedback and corrective actions are in place to improve vendor development and deliveries.
• Implement project related to reduce level of inventory, excess & obsolete items.
• Resolve discrepancy problems in a timely manner and collaborate with Warehouse and Logistics team to solve them.
• Respond Invoices assigned in Maple (AP discrepancies).