Buyer - (PRP26418)

• 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
• · 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
• · Demonstrated experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
• · 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers
• · 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 ERP
• · Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

• · 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
• · 1 year of experience negotiating agreements
• · Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment
• · Advanced Excel skills
• · Proficiency in Oracle
• Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website
• https://www.tmeic.com/. 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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