Buyer - (PRP26418)

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, 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 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

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

·       Demonstrated experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment

·       1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers

·       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

·       Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

·       Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP

·       Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

·       2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment

·       1 year of experience negotiating agreements

·       Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment

·       Advanced Excel skills

·       Proficiency in Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website

https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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