Senior Tactical Buyer
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Job Location:
Grand Rapids, MI - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 85125 - 124850
Posted on:
23 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Senior Tactical Buyer plays a vital part in maintaining a steady and reliable flow of direct materials that support customer orders and align with production requirements. This position leads material planning activities improves supplier coordination and optimizes inventory performance to ensure operational continuity. The role also focuses on identifying and mitigating supply risks while adapting optimally to demand changes within a project-based manufacturing environment.
We offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $85125 to $124850 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location education experience knowledge and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:
This is What you Will Do
Manage end-to-end material execution for assigned categories including purchase orders confirmations due-date tracking exception handling and expediting/de-expediting to achieve OTIF targets.
Ensure material availability by accomplishing high-quality planning within SAP/MRP and meeting delivery inventory cost and quality objectives.
Maintain and optimize material master data and planning parameters (MOQ safety stock lead time stock classifications) in alignment with PFEP standards.
Analyze demand and future requirements to support accurate planning supplier readiness and production continuity.
Supervise inventory performanceincluding turns excess and obsolescenceand drive corrective or recovery actions.
Identify and report shortages against production plans ROS and customer commitments.
Serve as the primary supplier interface managing day-to-day communication performance expectations and recurring business reviews.
Partner cross-functionally with Strategic Buyers Category Leaders Project Teams Logistics Customer Service Quality and Supplier Quality Engineering to improve OTIF reduce lead times mitigate risk and resolve issues (8D SCAR PPAP rejects rework).
Advance supplier risks proactively and recommend alternate sourcing strategies when required.
Support supplier development initiatives committed to delivery reliability quality improvement and lead-time reduction.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
Mentor team members by supporting capability development leading meetings and contributing as a senior team resource.
Support audits governance and blocking issue processes and contribute to cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives.
What we are Looking For
Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management Business Administration Engineering or related field preferred.
6 years of experience in material planning purchasing or material management in a manufacturing environment.
Advanced SAP experience (MRP procure-to-pay master data reporting).
Experience working with international suppliers preferred.
Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and reporting/dashboard capabilities.
APICS CPIM/CSCP and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt preferred.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Purchasing
- Sourcing
- Procurement
- HR Sourcing
- SAP
- Supply Chain Experience
- ERP Systems
- negotiation
- Materials Management
- Manufacturing
- MRP
- Contracts
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.
