Senior Buyer

3 months ago

Sandy Springs, United States The QUIKRETE® Companies Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

The QUIKRETE® Companies manufactures infrastructure, commercial, and industrial construction, repair, and home improvement products, including ready-to-use cement mixes, segmental concrete, tile installation systems, concrete pipe, corrugated metal pipe, stormwater systems, bridges, and other related products. The company is seeking a Senior Buyer. The Buyer will be responsible for executing procurement strategies, negotiating contracts, evaluating suppliers, and ensuring timely delivery of goods while maintaining cost efficiency.

This is an in-office position. This role is expected to report to the office 5 days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Selects vendors and requests written bids/telephone quotes on purchases within delegated authority.
  • Reviews and evaluates bids, records bid information including vendor price, payment terms, and delivery.
  • Respond to/process system triggers for material and requests from plants for material or information. Manage internal customer expectations for production and delivery of finished products and coordinate with Quikrete Logistics. May include review of BOMs/drawings.
  • Issue Purchase Orders for raw material within assigned commodities.
  • Manage/monitor on-hand inventory of stock at supplier, subcontractor and plant locations. May also assist with periodic physical inventories.
  • Work with Quikrete Quality Assurance Manager to monitor vendor quality performance to ensure internal customer satisfaction and initiate corrective action as necessary using appropriate internal systems. Process claims as required.
  • Assist with accounting/purchasing functions, including receiving products, virtually transferring inventory, reviewing invoices and providing Proof of Delivery documents from vendors.
  • Meets with vendors to receive product and service information; performs value analysis; analyzes quality, price, source of supply, delivery date, shipping charges and product cost.
  • Resolves vendor-user conflicts; obtains and issues emergency purchase authorizations.
  • Ensures use of proper record keeping methods and procedures.
  • Interprets departmental policies, AASHTO and ASTM specifications and other regulations that may govern the purchasing activities and the awarding of contracts.
  • Monitor data integrity, including the ERP system, incoming EDI data and Access databases and assist with resolution.
  • Coordinate addition of new items and new item/plant combinations to ERP system with Cost Accounting and ensure correct descriptions are loaded.
  • Other duties assigned.

 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field preferred.
  • Combination of post-secondary education and experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Minimum of five years of responsible experience in quantity buying for a large organization.
  • Experience: performing detailed review of purchasing invoices, purchase orders, and requisitions to ensure conformance with policies and procedures; preparing and evaluating specifications for products and services; applying value analysis criteria to products and materials to include weighted value methods.
  • Knowledge of; theory and practices of purchasing, including ethics, standards, bid preparation and evaluation, competitive bidding procedures, quality control; data collection techniques for establishing sources of supply, product, and vendor information; office procedures; use of office automation to assist in the purchasing function; general computer applications used in business, such as spreadsheet, data base, word processing software.
  •  Ability to: conduct studies, evaluate data, and make recommendations and decisions; prepare and present written or oral reports; act as Purchasing Agent as assigned; perform arithmetic calculations; use common units of measure; calculate interest, discounts, and shipping charges; provide staff training in the use of computer applications for purchasing; recognize responsibility and limits of assigned authority; maintain an effective liaison with vendors, management personnel, and co-workers.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office

Preferred:

  • Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
  • Proficient in J.D. Edwards
  • APICS CPIM or CSCP Certification 

 

Company DescriptionThe QUIKRETE® Companies, is the largest manufacturer of packaged concrete and cement mixes in the U.S. and Canada, and an innovative leader in the commercial building and home improvement industries.Company DescriptionThe QUIKRETE® Companies, is the largest manufacturer of packaged concrete and cement mixes in the U.S. and Canada, and an innovative leader in the commercial building and home improvement industries.

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