Plant Buyer 2

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where your unique viewpoint is valued and respected. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation excels at helping our customers solve their most challenging problems. Our products serve diverse global customer needs across a wide range of applications, advancing health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Discover what drives you within a team with over 75 years of history in discovery, determination, and innovation.

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The Plant Buyer 2 role negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts with suppliers, prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services, and supplies for customer-related business processes or for internal use. Conducts complete development life cycle, including interviews of users, development of requirements documents, creation of design specifications, and implementation of requirements. Drives ongoing supplier optimization and continuous improvement.

This on-site position reports to the Materials Manager and is part of the Materials department located in Cortland, New York.

In this role, you will:

• Material Issue Resolution & Problem Solving: Identifies material shortages, overdesign, and issues, then implements effective countermeasures through structured problem-solving.

• Kanban & PFEP Compliance: Maintains deployed Kanbans to ensure alignment with manufacturing site needs and Plan for Every Part (PFEP) requirements.

• Purchase Order Lifecycle Management: Oversees daily creation and maintenance of purchase orders, ensuring accurate tracking, timely delivery, and vendor payments aligned with authorized terms.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborates with Warehouse and Accounts Payable teams to monitor and correct erroneous receipts and invoices, ensuring financial and operational accuracy.

• Supplier Communication & Data Sharing: Works with the materials team to provide sourcing teams and vendors with accurate usage data, supporting Heijunka principles and supplier alignment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with a minimum of 2 years of relevant buying, supply chain, and logistics experience/or logistics experience with various suppliers and vendors, to ensure timely and proper material delivery.

• Proficient in utilizing MS Office, Email, and Excel.

• Experience working with SAP.

• Ability to remain organized, manage time effectively, and engage appropriately with suppliers and team members.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a comprehensive array of competitive benefits that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $85,000 - $95,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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