Senior Buyer

The Senior Buyer coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and advertising for CMCO. This position is responsible for communicating with vendors on providing quality materials at competitive prices, delivered per our schedule and ensuring on time delivery to our customers.

Requirements

• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Timely ordering of required materials.
• ERP system maintenance of parameters such as supplier lead times, etc.
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
• Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid.
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users
• Buying and negotiating.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Benefits

• NAPM membership
• CPM