Buyer Direct

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A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful inclusive and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but dont meet every bullet point we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth were looking to add a Buyer Direct located in Austin TX

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager Direct the Buyer Direct.This role will coordinate activities involved with procuring direct materials components and equipment

What a typical day looks like:

• Maintaining relations with the suppliers.
• Placing orders for necessary raw materials and purchased parts according to the requirements of the production.
• Receiving and handling the confirmations.
• Checking the purchase orders and modifying them according to the changes in the production plan with the help of the Shortage List and the Open Purchase Order List.
• Tracking shipments urging them if needed.
• Regular weekly check of the stocks avoiding overstock.
• Minimizing the risk of obsolescence with the help of the weekly check of the obsolete report.
• Correspondence with the freight forwarders warehouses and in case organizing the transportation.
• Dealing with claims settling debit and credit issues.
• Filing and recording all necessary documents.
• Checking the inventory of critical materials (personally if needed) according to the Shortage List.
• Getting in touch with the right warehouse personnel and having the discrepancy modified if there is any inventory discrepancies.
• Handling purchasing data privacy.
• Assuring all active components according to production needs in time for the accord price in the request.
• Reviews requisitions and MRP output.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price availability and delivery schedule.
• Orders reschedules and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased costs delivery and inventories.

The experience were looking to add to our team:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 4 years of Buyer and Procurement experience.
• Proficiency using Excel
• SAP Oracle or similar is required
• Ability to write reports business correspondence and procedures.
• Customer-facing role in previous position is preferred.

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What youll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical dental and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Application Deadline:

Applications for this job position will be accepted for at least five days following the job posting start date below and continuing until the end date below or until the position is filled. This posting may close sooner due to application volume.

Job Posting Start DateJob Posting End Date Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Relocation:Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available

No

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