Buyer

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Requisitions and purchases pre-approved materials, products, and services.
• Performs research on requested materials, products, and services.
• Makes vendor recommendations based on products, materials, and/or services options, pricing, and delivery terms.
• Reconciles discrepancies between purchasing, delivery, and invoicing. Resolves accounts payable issues with internal and external customers.
• Prepares weekly and monthly purchasing activity reports.
• Negotiates and arranges for delivery of requested materials, products, and/or services.
• Develops and publishes requests for proposals.
• Offers research summaries, updates, and recommendations to managers and/or other departments/decision makers to ensure that more informed purchasing/costing decisions are made.
• Analyzes and processes ERP material requirements plan (MRP) information.
• Facilitates internal team meetings with suppliers to discuss areas such as pricing, quality, performance, and/or new product/project bids opportunities.
• Negotiates and arranges for the return of non-conforming materials (RMA) to the supplier.
• Maintains supplier files and confidentiality agreements.
• Performs other related duties as required or assigned.

• None.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, the general public, and other employees of the organization.
• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information.
• Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Writes routine reports and correspondence.
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides numbers (using currency and other forms of measurement).
• Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
• Deals with problems involving several known variables in situations of routine nature.
• Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work; may also occasionally assist in planning work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
• Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree.
• Completes some moderately repetitive tasks.
• Uses noncomplex machines and equipment (adding machines, calculators, copy/fax machines, etc.).

• Equivalent of four years of high school (required).
• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations management, or a related degree (preferred).
• Four to six years of relevant education or experience in purchasing, logistics, or a related field (preferred).

• Intermediate: Word processing/typing.
• Basic: Alphanumeric data entry, Microsoft Office suite.

• None.

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is:
  • Continually required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
  • Regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
  • Occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• The company will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

• This position is not subjected to harmful environmental conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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