Buyer

General Role Description

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

requirements

Role Accountabilities

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

-    Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system  

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

-    Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery 

-    Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier and submit to manager  

-    Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested  

-    Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units 

-    Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for 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 expeditors 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