Assoc Buyer/Planner

Overview

Processes direct materials purchase requisitions and manages assigned suppliers and parts to ensure timely delivery of materials to the manufacturing site, while supporting cost-effective procurement and supplier performance.

What you'll do

• Review and analyze purchase requisitions and coordinate purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning and engineering departments to acquire inventory cost-effectively and on time.
• Process purchase requisitions, purchase change orders and requests for quotes to suppliers.
• Ensure procurement business system data input and integrity, including creating and maintaining bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprise-wide systems.
• Participate in maximizing procurement team changes and part parameters, including quote table maintenance, supplier database information, error report analysis, and part number/supplier code information.
• Perform cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities (materials, components, equipment and services).
• Monitor the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to negotiate highest quality at best value.
• Develop new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.
• Recommend cost saving proposals, including make-versus-buy analysis or alternative sourcing.
• Interact closely with suppliers and QA to resolve quality issues.
• Work with management on commodity management, including procurement support, commodity business plans, market trends assessment, pricing, and product availability.
• Own assigned suppliers and parts to ensure timely delivery of materials to the manufacturing site for manufacturing and spare parts requirements.
• Maintain effective collaboration with suppliers to avoid disruption to manufacturing and escalate internally and externally as needed.
• Manage supplier part lead times, safety stock, expedites, Supplier Change Notifications (SCNs) and supplier collaboration on delivery reschedules.
• Collaborate with Planning, Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing teams and Suppliers on material quality issues; may facilitate virtual meetings and publish notes/actions.
• Collaborate with Sourcing, use SAP material settings and execute purchase orders to optimize pricing tiers, minimum order quantities, and supplier capacity plans.
• Coordinate with supplier, Quality and Warehousing on return-to-vendor (RMA) actions, including repair and refurbishment.
• Work with a PLM system for specifications, part diagrams, work instructions, etc., and with the Reliance / ETQ quality management system for action assignments and document changes.
• Champion suppliers using Ariba B2B solutions, portals and collaboration tools.
• Ensure accuracy of confirmed delivery dates in SAP and negotiate with suppliers to expedite or push out deliveries.
• Drive on-time delivery, inventory turnover, requisition conversion and other key performance indicators (KPIs) for assigned suppliers.
• Secure part certifications from suppliers as appropriate for successful global distribution of spare parts.
• Recommend cost saving proposals to suppliers in collaboration with Sourcing teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Typically 3-5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 2 years and a Master's degree.
• Experience with global suppliers and stakeholder management.
• SAP ECC MM module and MRP knowledge.
• Thorough knowledge of direct procurement, vendor relations, and inventory management.
• Familiarity with GMPs, product specifications and incoming inspection procedures.
• Effective verbal and written communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving and organizational skills; detail oriented.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook.

Nice to have

• Ariba SCC knowledge.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (Manyata).
• Willingness to work 2-11 shift to support US Region (no night shift required).
• Not eligible for visa sponsorship.