Senior Buyer

3 days ago


Simi Valley, United States ESI Motion Full time

Looking for a talented and experienced individual to procure and assess inventory for electrical components.

The Senior Buyer uses expertise for a range of purchasing activities, including pricing and negotiating with suppliers to reach highest quality at best value. Performs complex purchasing activities, while ensuring procurement procedures are in compliance with government laws, regulations and management objectives.



Responsibilities:

  • Communicate priorities and schedule changes to outside processing suppliers on a daily basis to support changes in production requirements.
  • Establish and maintain positive working relationships with suppliers; communicate common supplier problems with Leadership.
  • Share best practices across the group and willingly take on additional work.
  • Assess inventory level and achieve goals of key production components.
  • Monitor supplier orders to assure they are shipped on a timely basis.
  • Improve supplier fill rates, quality, and lead times to fit product mix and needs.
  • Obtain quotes from suppliers for production material and outside processing operations.
  • Negotiate blanket purchase orders and pursue cost reduction initiatives that eliminate adverse Purchase Price Index. (PPI)
  • Interact with sourcing teams to ensure best practices and greatest leverage in procurement, low cost region sourcing, supplier assessment & management.
  • Publish daily shortage report to communicate current delivery information from suppliers.
  • Resolve invoice discrepancies on a timely basis.
  • Manage supplier quality through the Non-Conforming Report (NCR)process.
  • Minimize production impact by ensuring discrepant materials are addressed with Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement Quality, Supervisors and Suppliers.
  • Work closely with suppliers and Procurement Quality Engineers to resolve Corrective Action Requests (CARs) generated from NCRs.
  • Get parts to dock on-time to support on time-delivery.
  • Any other task assigned by supervisor or management.



Qualifications/Skills:

  • Requires well-developed skill in communicating with others.
  • Proficiency in Excel and Word and ability to work with Access databases.
  • Ability to coordinate materials and production schedules with multiple teams, solve urgent problems associated with the manufacture of products and document and communicate production outcomes and trends.
  • Ability to perform math and logic computations requiring sequencing of times, critical incidents, and numeric information.
  • Ability to negotiate changes with vendors and manufacturing teams.
  • Excellent oral and written English skills.
  • U.S. person



Education

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectations.
  • Minimum of 3+ years of recent buying experience


As part of the ESI Motion's commitment to this overall process as an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer, we will ensure all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, transfer, layoff, and termination processes remain free of illegal discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, and protected veteran status. ESI Motion ensures all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements.


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