Buyer II
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Job Location:
Bloomington, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world headquartered in Leverkusen and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products agricultural chemicals seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: Buyer II
Location: Bloomington Minnesota 55435
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Summary
Indirect Materials Procurement is responsible for the procurement of indirect material including but not limited to spare parts production supply packaging facility supplies tooling / fabrication and services for the factory. This role involves budget planning supplier management and inventory control to support operational needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions.
- Coordinates purchasing activities with manufacturing facility and engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost-effective and timely manner.
- Processes Request for Quotation Purchase Requisitions Purchase Orders and change requests if any.
- Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity.
- Participates in maximizing the procurement teams changes supplier database information error report analysis and supplier information.
- Performs cost analysis and works with requesters for volume planning for major commodities (e.g. materials components equipment and services).
- Monitors the cost schedule and scope of assigned suppliers to negotiate highest quality at best value.
- Interacts closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers on any quality concerns to resolve quality issues.
- Escalates critical issues to the relevant stakeholders and superiors.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field.
Skills
- Purchasing and supplier management skills.
- Critical thinking skills.
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
- Strong negotiating skills to secure the best prices.
- Good computer skills (SAP ERP Excel Microsoft Word PowerPoint) are a must.
- Good data analytic and data science skills (Excel Knime Alteryx Power BI Python) are preferable.
Experience
- Relevant experience preferred.
- Purchasing and Supplier Management.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
