Senior Buyer

Are you passionate about driving procurement excellence and making a real impact on organizational success? Join our team as a Senior Buyer, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the procurement strategy for the T-US organization. In this dynamic position, you’ll collaborate across departments to plan, purchase, and manage the materials and services that help us exceed customer expectations. You’ll analyze supplier capacity, review lead times, and develop stocking plans, all while ensuring clear communication with project managers, customer service, and leadership. Your expertise will help us secure the best materials and equipment at optimal cost, quality, and availability. If you thrive on continuous improvement and enjoy researching new suppliers and innovative solutions, we invite you to lead initiatives that optimize our supply chain from forecasting through delivery. Take the next step in your career with us and help drive our success!

How You Will Make an Impact.

• Procures Material, Services and Capital Equipment for T-US.
• Evaluates Purchase Requisitions to optimize Quality, Delivery, and Cost for internal and external customers.
• Represents Tecan as the primary contact for vendors to communicate price, delivery, and any needed escalation for purchased parts and services.
• Expedites critical orders and provide status updates to project managers and key stakeholders.
• Initiates and Manages Supplier/Department corrective actions as required.
• Assist in Supplier Audits as required to ensure Vendor Performance, Quality Standard, and Regulation Compliance.
• Analyze Customer Demand for trends to develop an accurate forecast to establish appropriate stocking level and reorder points for material.
• Implements appropriate sourcing strategies including annual sourcing plans to control the company’s purchased material costs and to assure an adequate source of supply.
• Supports sourcing strategies that coincide with corporate and divisional goals and objectives.
• Works collaboratively with the larger Tecan team to identify and evaluate Vendor Capabilities, Terms and Conditions, and Stability to effectively manage future growth of the business.
• Develops, strengthens, and maintains relationships with selected vendors in order to ensure open communication and efficient working relationships.
• Develops vendor capability awareness across departments to facilitate common understanding of vendor services to ensure that the best vendor partners are selected for each opportunity.
• Assists Finance with Accounts Payable with any invoice discrepancies around procurement.
• Performs routine reporting and maintenance of procedures, schedules, and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators).
• Establishes, Monitors, and Manages vendor KPI’s to meet internal targets and expectations.
• Serves as the SAP Power User for Procurement to maintain data and process integrity.
• Follows all local safety procedures, State and Federal OSHA Regulations, and reports any safety concerns.
• Participates on local and global projects as required.
• Perform other tasks as assigned and responds to change positively.

What you will bring.

• Customer Service focused on approach to internally and externally
• Strong knowledge of procurement principles, theories and processes
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, able to prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, professional phone and email etiquette
• Ability to work well under pressure, to multitask, with strong follow-up skills
• Ability to interact effectively with diverse groups inside and outside of the organization
• Strong Business acumen to evaluate financial impacts of procurement decisions
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
• Excellent research and analytical skills
• Ability to travel as required (<10%)
• A desire to make the difference!

Your background.

• BA/BS degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain or equivalent
• MBA or APICS certification preferred, but not required
• 5+ years of progressive procurement experience
• ERP experience required (SAP Preferred)
• Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel, and accounting systems.

What we provide.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Health Reimbursement Account
• 14 Company-Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Employer match on employee's first 6% contributions; with no vesting period
• Long/Short-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Accident, Critical Illness, & Hospital Indemnity
• Legal Shield/Identity Shield
• Pet Insurance

What makes working at Tecan unique?

• The chance to make it count and to have an impact on the world of tomorrow
• Working in an international and diverse environment
• The chance to grow your career within the company
• Feel empowered by our strong and unique company culture

Our purpose.

At Tecan we are driven to improve people’s lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant.

Stay unique and make it count.

Our values - trust, highest standards and ambition - are the cornerstones of our business and provide the framework for Tecan's culture. We foster a positive and empowering environment where our rarest assets, our unique employees, can grow and bring their passion and talent to work.

Join Tecan, a great place to work! Read about our recent certification from Great Place to Work.

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