Senior Buyer Map

General Role Description

Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements

Role Accountabilities

·         Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved

·         Evaluate new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system

·         Identify and develop new suppliers globally to support business unit needs and lower costs

·         Negotiate with suppliers to achieve lower material cost and on time delivery

·         Manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier

·         Negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements directly with suppliers

·         Recommend and implement risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to business unit management

·         Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and lead supplier recovery activities

·         Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority

·         Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management

·         Notify Expeditor of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP

·         Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products

·         Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions

·         Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers

·         Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department

·         Notify finance department of new “ship-to” locations of suppliers

·         Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist

·         Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner

·         Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management

·         Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company

General Employee Accountabilities

·         Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

·         Give manager best advice

·         Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

·         Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

·         Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

·         Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

·         Recommend viable improvements proactively

·         Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Requirements

• ·         Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• ·         5 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
• ·         3 years of experience sourcing new suppliers
• ·         1 year of experience negotiating complex agreements
• ·         Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• ·         Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• ·         Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• ·         Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and an ERP
• ·         Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

·         Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment

·         Advanced Excel skills

·         Proficiency in Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website

To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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