Buyer, Equipment

• Experience Required: 3 to 5 years
• Experience Desired: Experience in Logistics orAccounting
• Education Required: Bachelors Degree
• Certification or Licensing Required: Purchasing Certifications through Institute Supply Management or other accreditation
• Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%; Regional - Overnight, Less than 10%

Job Responsibilities

• Attend pre-design walk-throughs, complete pre-design equipment estimate based on scope and store walk-through within 3 weeks.
• Reduce the lifecycle costs of all capital projects, coordinating with Manager, Fixed Assets to identify equipment that can be re-used or relocated to reduce costs.
• Check equipment inventory at the warehouse, collaborating with existing vendors on value engineering opportunities, volume buy discounts, freight consolidation and determining whether equipment can be re-used instead of replaced based on the equipment evaluation report and maintenance history.
• Review and analyze specific project floor plans (T-1 Plans) with Store Planning, Engineering, and Construction Team Members in the preparation of equipment cost estimates and budgets for all assigned projects using the standard purchasing department review checklists.
• Establish (lock) budget into TRIRIGA Purchasing system and distribute budget information to Project Manager.
• Review requisitions and approve purchase orders.
• Review all purchase orders to ensure accurate detail of equipment requirements, delivery address, dates, and costs.
• Manage locked equipment budget with 100% accountability, recording and documenting changes via SPCR process.
• Create total project equipment cost forecast including IS and Refrigeration equipment
• Send purchase orders, ensuring adequate time for equipment delivery with correct job site contact information and distribute 4-week look ahead delivery schedule every 2 weeks.
• Communicate with onsite GC on a bi-weekly basis and work with supplier to mitigate equipment lead-times and communicate lead time changes to project management.
• Solicit and review project specific equipment proposals and order acknowledgments for compliance with current standards.
• Coordinate and complete project revisions via the SPCR program with Store Planning, Engineering, and Construction Team Members, adjusting equipment orders and deliveries to support these changes.
• Prepare, distribute, and update delivery schedule from TRIRIGA as required by ongoing modifications to the project schedule and track or follow up on missing and late deliveries of damaged goods.
• Forecast equipment spend by project monthly, submitting to PM by pre-determined deadline.
• Create all-in forecast spend including IS & Refrigeration.
• Review and process all equipment invoices and provide reconciliation of invoices that do not match purchase orders to ensure accuracy to budget and expedite the correction of inaccurate invoicing and project closeout.
• Close and reconcile equipment purchase orders to ensure the closing of projects in accounting following the published close-out schedule.
• Conduct periodic site visits to ensure order compliance and delivery receipt.
• Work closely with LOB Leaders and Procurement Manager to qualify equipment and new vendors.
• Ensure all new products are aligned with the overall sourcing strategy and Company objective.
• Perform the duties required for research, sourcing, specification, estimating, budgeting, ordering, delivery scheduling, and tracking invoicing of all equipment purchasing as it relates to fixed assets and purchases not for resale.
• Source new products and equipment and pursue alternate suppliers and manufacturers and/or cost efficiencies for current equipment to reduce procurement costs.  Identify new and diverse suppliers, request proposals, assess quotes  and compile bid tabulations and equivalent scope of supply summaries, negotiate with suppliers and make recommendation(s) for award in coordination with Central Procurement and the Manger of Equipment Procurement. 
• Support Central Procurement with sourcing of assigned strategic vendor agreements.  Function as business lead for assigned agreements functioning as the supplier point of contact.  Audit vendor performance generating performance scorecard and participate in vendor business reviews.