Buyer/Planner II

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Position overview: The Buyer Planner is responsible for ensuring materials availability to support our production and new product introduction schedule. This role involves managing inventory levels, supporting material and product changes, resolving supplier matters and collaborate with internal customers. The successful candidate will be able to work in a fast-paced start-up environment, a self-starter and the ability to prioritize tasks and project to meet timelines. The position coordinates with potential suppliers, negotiates prices and terms, and agreements or contracts, establishes and maintains ongoing relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, price and delivery standards are met.

This role is also responsible for ensuring consumables and materials such as components, supply items, tooling, etc. are available for production, maintenance, and material handling operations.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Place purchase orders for procurement of materials requirements as required by forecasts and production plans, and R&D supplies.
• Maintain relationships with existing supplier and develop relationships with new suppliers by leading quote development, supplier on-boarding and monitoring.
• Foster strong relationships with internal customers. Act as the primaryinterface with production, and material handling.
• Identify material requirements, execute purchase orders, follow-up on deliveries and adhere to inventory stock levels.
• Develop material status reports and provide to manufacturing and R&D teams.
• Set up and manage safety stock levels and optimize material replenishment schedules.
• Utilize inventory tracking methodologies, analyze data and take appropriate action.
• Efficient material and product changes by providing implementation plans of engineering improvements with the production teams.
• Support Incoming Quality Control to ensure components meet defined quality standardsand requirements.
• Facilitate supplier corrective actions as required.
• Monitor and report on-time delivery, purchase price variances, supplier quality performance, monthly.
• Maintain accurate records and documents related to all purchasing activities.
• Request and process Returned Goods Authorizations.
• Improve purchasing and planning processes through LEAN principles.

Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree or higher in related field or minimum of 5 years’ experience in purchasing and/or planning roles.
• Experience in manufacturing environment.
• Advance level competency with MS suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must be able to quickly learn new systems.
• Must be able to read blueprints and interpret technical specifications and illustrations.
• Supplier contract negotiation experience.
• Must be a critical thinker.
• Must be able to meet job requirements while following GMP and ISO policies.
• Intermediate knowledge of Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) concepts.
• Must have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.