Buyer II

Job description

Looking for a Buyer with 4 - 7 years Experience

This position is responsible for analyzing, planning, scheduling, and purchasing a wide variety of technical material required for production in accordance with the master schedule requirements, lead times, order policies, business inventory policy, shortage report, schedule sharing and MRP.
Initiating, expediting and rescheduling purchase orders to meet demand requirements;
Data integrity of item, purchase order and supplier ERP data;
Reconciliation of material receipts to purchase orders;
Reconciliation of inventory to third party contract manufacturing systems;
Investigate and resolve AP issues with suppliers, where required; and communicate proactively with management through dialog and/or reports regarding concerns on price trends, quality, supply, safety, material innovations and service levels.

Intake notes:

Do you have any time off planned during the Hiring process? If so, do you have anyone designated to do interviews on your behalf. No

Temp to hire - Based on the needs of the business and resource performance

If Temp to hire, what is the FTE salary range: TBD

Assignment duration: 6 months

Hybrid - Working 1 to 2 days in the Office and the other days they will work remote- Need to be local only

Work Schedule (Will this resource work any OT?): M-F 8-5 but will need to work some early morning and some late in the evenings to meet with China/Hong Kong (Can discuss during interview)

How long will the training be for this resource before they are expected to work independently: Would like to have the resource train with the person leaving for 2 months.

Interviews Information (How many interviews, type of interviews): 45 min

Reason for new request: Replacing a FTE that is moving to another position

What Top skills/software and previous are most important to you?
Need to know how to read MRP
Manage PO's(Open/Close), vendors, last time buy PO's
Ensure vendors are getting paid by working with AP
Customer care team will ask question around stock level and due dates
Spend millions with this vendor so this person has to pay attention to details to ensure things are
New product introduction to ensure suppliers are meeting the due date -
Send out supply forecast
need to have good excel skills: V-look up and pivots and save data
Google suits is a plus
SAP is a plus
net suite is plus