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Job Description
Primary Function of Position:
Manages procurement of direct materials to support business requirements: including purchase order management negotiating costs purchase order management and inventory management. Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
- Reviews interprets and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
- Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability alignment of risk and cost goals with vision for the business.
- Owns performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers providing information to strategic purchasing for supplier business reviews.
- Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban consignment and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize on-hand inventory.
- Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier on-time delivery quality inventor turns problem shelf expedited inbound freight vendor scrap E&O reduction).
- Leverages problem solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
- Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Coordinate with strategic purchasing price changes due to cost reduction initiatives volume pricing or requested by supplier.
- Supports assigned commodity team by participating in identified risk mitigation and cost reduction opportunities and supporting other commodity projects as assigned.
Qualifications :
Skills Experience Education & Training:
- BS degree or equivalent
- 3 years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems preferably SAP and Agile.
- Working knowledge of buying material planning master scheduling and forecasting.
- Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
- Ability to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- English 90%
- Availability to travel to both domestic and international suppliers.
Additional Information :
Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminacin y acoso independientemente de su raza sexo condicin de embarazo orientacin sexual identidad de gnero origen nacional color edad religin condicin de veterano protegido o de discapacidad informacin gentica o cualquier otra condicin protegida por las leyes federales estatales o locales aplicables.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
