Buyer

Ready to join our mission to change a patient’s life every minute?
We're a global leader in spine and orthopedic medical technology innovation with a mission to transform surgery, advance care, and change lives. We strive to build a culture of high performance and meaning in our work by bringing innovative products and solutions to patients and surgeons around the world, infusing passion and purpose throughout our organization.

Starting a career with Nuvasive comes with many rewards:

• Competitive pay rates, OT pay incentives, plus annual bonus incentives
• Joining a dynamic culture eager to innovate, enhance diversity, and work smarter
• 3 weeks vacation plus paid holidays with an additional 48 hours of sick time
• Full medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and robust EAP wellness opportunities
• 401k retirement perks with a healthy 50% match up to 8%
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan - great discounts provided
• Career development, training, and formalized development plans
• Work in one of the cleanest and safest manufacturing sites in the state of Ohio!
• On-site fitness center

Job Summary and Primary Responsibilities

At the cutting edge of spine technology, the Buyer will lead procurement activities in an exciting, fast-paced organization. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: PO creation, inventory management, order management, price, quantity and delivery negotiations, an understanding of supplier capacity, vendor management and relationship building, working in cross-functional teams, product risk mitigation, and on-time delivery. They will be empowered to encourage and hold accountable those with tasks that directly impact their own responsibilities to stay on track. The buyer should have the ability to measure supplier capabilities, lead issue resolution with minimal oversight, and help balance competing priorities by utilizing exception messages.

Required Skills / Capabilities

• Prepare and place weekly purchase orders
• Responsible for all purchasing activities related to maintaining the health of their assigned suppliers and part #’s
• Be responsive and accountable in a fast-paced, team and results-oriented environment.
• Act as a strong team player with the ability to work effectively on a cross-functional team, which may include Marketing, Development, Quality, Distribution, Accounts Payable, and other Supply Chain counterparts.
• Must be able to pay superior attention to detail
• Possess skills for 360-degree accountability and total ownership of assigned parts with strong data-driven analytics
• Excellent time management skills with a high sense of urgency to oversee priorities in line with the organization’s top priorities and/or other critical objectives.
• Ability to manage high-mix, low-volume product lines utilizing an ERP system including but not limited to MRP utilization, pulling, and understanding gross and net forecasts
• Review and convert purchase requirements for assigned part #’s via MRP.
• Monitor purchase orders and communicate regularly with suppliers to maintain delivery schedules on time, and proactively communicate to management and internal customers when critical issues arise.
• Must be able to expedite critical components and stay on top of overdue purchase orders.
• Resolve supplier problems associated with late deliveries, over shipments, invoicing issues, obsolete, rework and scrap material. Escalate to management when necessary.
• Works closely with Accounts Payable and Receiving to resolve issues affecting vendor payments
• Understand the appropriate escalation path when critical situations arise, which may require leadership involvement to resolve.
• Participate in the quarterly Supplier Review process and be able to speak on specifics regarding your parts and suppliers.
• Must be able to develop a strong, excellent working relationship with internal customers and suppliers.
• Utilize excellent negotiation skills to drive and participate in cost reductions, VMI and supply agreements, and reduced lead times
• Ability to read and understand BOM’s and any other relevant technical documents at a high level, with a basic understanding of manufacturing processes and how they translate to lead time and delivery
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Utilize a creative thinker mindset to generate contributing ideas for process improvements, cost reductions, and improving efficiencies to reduce waste; job, team, workload, etc.
• Exhibit customer-first mentality.
• Ability to problem-solve and utilize root cause analysis; collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions (DMAIC, the 5 why’s and other lean six-sigma strategies are a plus)
• Able to recognize risks/opportunities and appropriately plan to mitigate/capitalize impact

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• APICS CPIM certification
• SAP ERP experience
• SAP Ariba Network experience
• Ability to manage high-mix, low-volume product lines (medical device experience preferred)
• MS Office proficiency: Excel (creating pivot tables, vlookups, if/or statements in Excel to analyze large data sets), a basic understanding of Microsoft Word, and creating PowerPoint presentations
• Lean Six Sigma and other lean practices

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.00 - $38.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Sourcing & Procurement Occupations: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location