Buyer

The Buyer is responsible for the timely procurement of assigned commodities, communicating with vendors, and ensuring on-time delivery to customers. The position involves ordering materials, reviewing requisitions, and analyzing supplier RFQ's.

Requirements

• Timely ordering of required materials and requisition review
• ERP system maintenance of parameters such as supplier lead times
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price
• Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid
• Creates, solicits, and analyzes supplier RFQ’s
• Compares prices, specifications, and delivery dates and awards contracts to bidders or places orders with suppliers
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority
• Maintains procurement records
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, vendors, and others
• Expedites delivery of goods to users
• International buying and negotiating
• Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests
• Verifies invoices from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves invoices for payment
• Negotiates pricing and delivery
• Uses MRP to initiate and change purchase orders
• Collaborates with Quality and suppliers to disposition off-standard purchased material
• Sends copies of updated material specifications to vendors
• Participates in various continuous improvement projects as required