What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Modular Devices?
Job Title: Buyer
Position Description: The Buyer is a highly visible and hands on role for Modular Devices’ that will assist with the purchasing of goods, materials, and services to ensure operational needs are met, while considering price, quality, and lead times to ensure production timelines are achieved. This role will contribute to the development of processes, procedures, and technology that support the current business model and are scalable for future growth. In addition, this role may partner with various teams to assist with weekly project management reporting.
Essential job duties include but are not limited to:
Note that these requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Knowledge/Skills:
If the need arises to work remote, including nights and weekends, employees are expected to work in a secure location to protect company data and have stable high-speed internet.
Additional requirements:
This is a full-time position. Employees are expected to work a general schedule of 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Employees may be required to work beyond the standard schedule to meet the deliverables and expectations of the role.
Position Description: The Buyer is a highly visible and hands on role for Modular Devices’ that will assist with the purchasing of goods, materials, and services to ensure operational needs are met, while considering price, quality, and lead times to ensure production timelines are achieved. This role will contribute to the development of processes, procedures, and technology that support the current business model and are scalable for future growth. In addition, this role may partner with various teams to assist with weekly project management reporting.
Essential job duties include but are not limited to:
- Controls and directs all activities involved with the receipt of material and distribution within warehouse.
- Monitors plant raw material purchasing for on time and cost-effective material delivery, vendor/supplier compliance and consistency with our quality standards.
- Negotiates directly with vendors to get the best possible pricing and payment options.
- Analyzes the impact of pricing changes for goods and services.
- Ability to create purchase orders and placement of orders with vendors.
- Participates in the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, procedures, material control systems and inventory accuracy.
- Keeps detailed records of purchases and stocks.
- Carefully monitors deliveries and any past due shipments.
- Analyzes data to enhance demand/supply planning, receiving, aged inventory, trend analysis, audit standards and results.
- Collaborates with operations, service, and accounting teams to ensure supplier quality issues are addressed, supplier improvement initiatives are in place when appropriate and production is protected to ensure on time delivery to all customers.
- Works with functional areas and suppliers on cost savings and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Builds relationships with suppliers and manage their performance.
- Assists with component and materials research.
- Partners with accounting to ensure procure to pay process is aligned and meets audit requirements.
- Ensures payment packet is complete and routed to accounts payable to include PO, receiving documents, authorized payment request, and accurate invoices.
- Collaborates with Project Managers to ensure materials are ordered, accounted for, and delivered to meet production needs. Assist with budget tracking, and dashboard reporting on project health.
Note that these requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Knowledge/Skills:
- Strong working knowledge of business computer applications including Microsoft Office, Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP) and Material Resource Planning (MRP) software.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data.
- Familiarity with or capacity to grasp terminology and concepts, tool names and uses.
- Ability to work cross functionally as a team player with flexible and result oriented approach.
- Enthusiasm for challenge and new initiatives.
- Must be able to work independently with limited direction, as well as in a team environment.
- Strong project management and problem-solving experience.
- Critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills required.
- Excellent negotiation, customer service and consulting skills.
- Purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Working knowledge of business operations units and how they interface.
- Resourceful, well organized, highly dependable, efficient, and adaptable.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work efficiently to meet commitments.
- Ability to deal with rapidly shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly communicative and able to manage multiple modes of communication with internal and external customers.
- High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities.
- Ability to identify risk and flag concerns to management.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external customers at various levels of the organization.
- Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
- Minimum 3 years supply chain experience, preferably in manufacturing.
- Detailed knowledge of purchasing, scheduling, inventory, and processes efficiency.
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics or similar business-related discipline preferred.
If the need arises to work remote, including nights and weekends, employees are expected to work in a secure location to protect company data and have stable high-speed internet.
Additional requirements:
This is a full-time position. Employees are expected to work a general schedule of 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Employees may be required to work beyond the standard schedule to meet the deliverables and expectations of the role.
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