Buyer

Purpose of the Job

• Responsible for assessing material and component requirements as required by Operations and MRP Need Date.
• Purchase of relatively complex direct materials, Customer Furnished Equipment, material or components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
• Identify and process price variances based on procedures when needed.
• Track and confirm material and component delivery dates from Suppliers ahead of promised dates to support Schedule-Go and PRW process among others.
• Expedite, align and negotiate material and component delivery dates to support operations need dates. Includes approval of early shipment, deferring deliveries and canceling orders whenever necessary.
• Communicate potential risks at the earliest possible time and recommend mitigating activities to support alignment to material need date.
• Assess and process through resolution issues such as but not limited to Grief, Action Requests, invoice and stock/delivery mismatches, and defer and cancellation messages.
• Manage assigned suppliers, commodities and perform sourcing
• Lead improvements to the process, perform root cause and corrective actions through Core and other tools.
• Lead discussions with Seating Sites and process changes needed to the related supply chain procedures while being the first line of communications with the suppliers. Performs Orderbook Management that consolidates other Seating site requirements.
• Represents Supply Chain in WAR, Schedule-Go, PRW and other relevant collaborative alignment meetings with other functions to support Operations build schedule and Product Quality.
• Consolidate and report out Supply Chain KPIs.
• Other functions that may be assigned.

Network & Links

Internal:

• Delivery Assurance Sourcing, Planning, Logistics, Quality
• Finance
• Operations

External:

• Suppliers
• Customer

Key Responsibilities

• Tactical Procurement of Seating components and materials.
• Timely purchase order placement, supplier confirmation, and price variance processing.
• On time delivery of parts to scheduled need date.
• Issues resolution including but not limited to AR, Grief and invoice to PO mismatch.
• Cancel and defer of Orders.
• Lead Improvements and root cause analysis.
• Lead source, Work Transfer and Rapid Response

Person Requirements

Educational Requirements

• Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering discipline or equivalent.

Knowledge / Experience

• Experience as Buyer, Purchaser, Expediter or equivalent.
• Experience in start-up environment.
• MRP experience (JDE, E1, SAP or equivalent).

Technical Skills / Competencies

• Understanding the use of Material Resource Planning system or equivalent.
• Above average written, verbal and computer skills.
• Team player and demonstrated attention to detail.