Buyer

[Position]

Buyer

[About Our Client]

A global leader of energy solutions and provides new values to customers

[Job Summary]

Department: SCM

Immediate Supervisor: SCM Manager

The SCM Buyer is to align plans between manufacturing, procurement, transport, construction, and sales AME to enable project sales while minimizing risk and supporting in the execution phase. Considering the lead time, physical constraints of the supply chain, and financial impacts of the plan at both regional and global portfolio levels. Able to distill options into understandable scenarios where stakeholders, including the executive level, clearly understand tradeoffs.

The SCM Buyer is responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing the supply of raw materials, components, and other necessary products to support production operations. The role requires close collaboration with the production team, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely procurement while optimizing costs and maintaining inventory levels. The Buyer will also play a critical role in maintaining supplier relationships and negotiating contracts in line with company goals and standards.

[Job Description]

- Coordinate between manufacturing/procurement/sales/construction/transport to meet customers’ demands from the sales process through execution while balancing supply chain constraints and maintaining visibility of the financial impacts to Vestas across the portfolio and clearly communicating the ever-evolving situation

- Function as Supply Chain “go to” person in the region when the Head of the Supply Chain is indisposed

- Facilitating regional sales forecast into the global S&OP numbers

- Evaluating projects presented by sales and how these fit with capacity allocations of sourcing and timing, then work alternatives to find acceptable solutions in the best interest of the whole of COMPANY.

- Evaluate projects in the pipeline in terms of opportunity costs and direct financial impacts to the portfolio when considering the full end-to-end supply chain

- Dive deeply into a process run in the Regional Supply Chain, working to streamline and improve

- Manage the release of projects for production

- Will have to consider financial impacts of plan changes, inventory, cost of cash, transport costs, duties between countries, and prices from different factories.

- Maintain and support full transparency across manufacturing and throughout the supply chain.

- This role will work on standard (daily, weekly, monthly) reporting, do ad hoc analysis of specific complex issues, and track to plan, report on execution, and present solutions (optimization). Looking to effect, timing, cash, TOR, transport, and ensuring on-time delivery at the lowest costs, we must consider regional and global implications.