Senior Buyer

SUMMARY:

LSI Industries is a market leader in lighting solutions. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, LSI is a publicly held company traded under the ticker symbol, LYTS. Over the span of 40+ years, LSI has built their reputation as an industry leader by offering a wide breadth of vertically integrated lighting/display solutions with design expertise and project management capabilities. LSI has an aggressive growth strategy, employing 1,400 people at 11 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada.

Our division, LSI ADL, is looking to add a Senior Buyer/Planner to our team for our Columbus, Ohio location. This on-site position would be responsible for making purchases to support production at our Columbus, OH location. This position would primarily oversee managing connectors, resistors, capacitors, hardware, wire/cable requirements.

LSI ADL Technology is an Electronics Manufacturing Services company producing Circuit Board Assemblies, Box Build and Cable Assemblies in the Industrial OEM and Lighting markets. Our production work ranges from running Surface Mount Technology Lines, Wave Solder Machines, Potting Machines and Wire Processing equipment in addition to Soldering, Manual Assembly, Conformal Coating & Testing of products.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzes material requirement planning (MRP) reports and independently makes decisions on procuring materials that are on time, under budget, and to customer specification.
• Serves as category expert and is encouraged to make recommendations for re-design to drive cost savings, to build more sustainable sourcing opportunities, and to make supply chain optimizations leading to better overall customer satisfaction.
• Develops and executes supplier managed inventory programs to increase inventory turns.
• Builds strategic supplier relationships fostering collaboration and open dialogue to improve total cost of ownership and on-time delivery metrics.
• Collects and analyzes data to make fact-based decisions that best serve the organization.
• Follows up with suppliers as needed to address any late purchase orders and notifies leadership of potential delivery impacts. Ability to think outside of the box and offer solutions to mitigate delivery risks.
• Processes exceptions and open purchase order reports to identify production gaps and serves as order expeditor with suppliers to address necessary schedule changes or to fix any order discrepancies.
• Assists in resolving any receiving or invoicing issues.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to make process improvements throughout the business.
• Limited travel as required to visit new and existing suppliers.
• Experience with a global supply base and good understanding of logistic incoterms/requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.