BuyerPlanner 9 month contract
BuyerPlanner 9 month contract
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Job Description
Reporting to the Purchasing Manager Directs the Buyer/Planner is responsible for ensuring the accurate timely purchasing of ingredients packaging and other materials used in the daytoday manufacture of products. This position will employ procurement and sourcing strategies to ensure the effective of purchase agreements and positive supplier relationships with a focus ontime material availability reducing costs and maximizing quality of materials and products.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
- Evaluate daily MRP (materials requirement plan) to determine material supply needs and take the appropriate actions to meet those needs.
- Generate adjust and expedite purchase orders for assigned commodities ensuring inventory levels are aligned with production schedule requirements.
- Follow up on purchases to ensure on time delivery.
- Monitor required materials are delivered and received to storage to ensure inventory accuracy.
- Make sound purchasing decisions that avoid price variances and minimize inventory levels.
- Support inventory management to review and minimize disposition of aged and excess inventory of assigned commodities.
- Assist with the coordination of material requirements to support projects innovation short and longterm forecast.
- Support the sourcing evaluation and recommendation of new suppliers and materials that help generate cost savings or improve efficiencies.
- Maintain data integrity/pricing for assigned commodities as defined by company and department guidelines.
- Generate/Publish supplier monthly score cards.
- Support Global Specification Management requirements as needed.
- Establish and maintain active relationships with suppliers.
- Communicate and monitor expected service levels from suppliers that support company goals and objectives.
- Support QA to resolve supplier quality issues ensure supplier performance issues are resolved on a timely basis to the satisfaction of internal stakeholders.
- Support Global Supplier Quality with requests for documentation supplier registration and quality performance expectations
- Participate in the supplier score card review and evaluation for assigned suppliers at established intervals.
- Stay proactive to flag any risks to supply based on market conditions that could affect price or availability of purchased items.
- Work with suppliers to ensure the latest order processing procedures and technology are being used.
- Support and resolve invoice reconciliation with accounts payable.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or related experience.
- Minimum three years experience within sourcing function in the manufacturing industry.
- Exceptional interpersonal written and oral communication skills.
- Selfstarter with excellent organization negotiation follow up and decisionmaking skills.
- Team player who can also work well independently and with little direction.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and requests in an efficient manner and on a timely basis.
- Strong analytical ability with great level of proficiency in use of Microsoft Office applications i.e. Excel Word PowerPoint and SharePoint.
- Proficiency with an ERP system utilizing MRP or other replenishment tool.
Employment Type
Full-Time
