General Role Description
Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements
Role Accountabilities
· Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved
· Evaluate new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system
· Identify and develop new suppliers globally to support business unit needs and lower costs
· Negotiate with suppliers to achieve lower material cost and on time delivery
· Manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier
· Negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements directly with suppliers
· Recommend and implement risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to business unit management
· Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and lead supplier recovery activities
· Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority
· Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management
· Notify Expeditor of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP
· Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products
· Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions
· Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers
· Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department
· Notify finance department of new “ship-to” locations of suppliers
· Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist
· Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner
· Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management
· Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company
General Employee Accountabilities
· Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
· Give manager best advice
· Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
· Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
· Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
· Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
· Recommend viable improvements proactively
· Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Requirements
- · Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
- · 5 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
- · 3 years of experience sourcing new suppliers
- · 1 year of experience negotiating complex agreements
- · Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
- · Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
- · Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
- · Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and an ERP
- · Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice
Preferred Qualifications
· Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment
· Advanced Excel skills
· Proficiency in Oracle
Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website
https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.
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