Buyer

Eaton’s IS VEH VGNA division is currently seeking a Buyer. This role is based in South Bend, IN.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $67500.0 - $99000.0 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do:

As a Buyer, you will play a key role in supporting our supply chain operations by managing procurement activities, building supplier relationships, and ensuring timely delivery of materials. We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about growth, thrive in collaborative environments, and are eager to contribute to a team that truly values their input.

Position Overview:

The primary objective of this role is to strategically manage the procurement of goods and services, applying good purchasing practices to ensure optimal quality, timely delivery, and compliance with specifications at the most competitive cost. This includes identifying and onboarding new suppliers, negotiating pricing and contract terms, evaluating supplier performance, initiating corrective actions when necessary, and expediting orders to meet customer requirements efficiently

What You’ll Do:

• Support Corporate SCM to conduct skillful and ethical negotiations with internal and external suppliers, solve problems, settle disputes, develop win-win resolutions and maintain positive relations through tact, diplomacy and good judgment.
• Become proficient with internal Order Tracking Process taking order queues from this system, will be responsible to load system and update internal reports with accurate data on purchasing actions for tracking purposes
• Balances current and future demand requirements with suppler capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
• Primary Eaton interface for coordination between the site and indirect material suppliers.
• Handle all suppliers add change requests per SCM policies.
• Assist with expediting indirect/direct material from intercompany locations to ensure no stock outages.
• Daily reporting of site KPIs related to delivery and weekly KPI reporting related to manufacturing expenses.
• Evaluates current and potential sources of supply to identify and prioritize areas requiring new sources of supply or performance improvement.
• Supports cost reduction projects and improvement initiatives to achieve overall business objectives.
• Coordinates with accounts payable on billing and /or credit issues.
• Understands how to utilize and apply project management tools and techniques for procurement applications.
• Prepares reports and other correspondence for use by Eaton SCM professionals.
• Ownership and support for EATON’s MESH requirements for Health and Safety.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Associates degree in supply chain or related field OR 3 years of experience in supply chain, procurement or purchasing processes within manufacturing.
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of South Bend, IN to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, e
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of ERP planning software and/or Oracle
• Good communication and customer care skills when interacting with both internal and/or external customers.
• Knowledge of Eaton commodity products and supplier resources.
• Good knowledge of supply chain and purchasing requirements.
• Sound knowledge of quality assurance and reporting accuracy.
• Knowledge and applications skills of process improvement.
• Lean Systems knowledge preferred
  
  
  

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.