Buyer, Sr II

Key Accountabilities

• Negotiate new and existing contracts and issue blanket and spot buy purchase orders.
• Develop commodity purchasing strategies that support ECM teams.
• Maintain supplier performance systems and cost saving initiative projects for commodity assignments.
• Collaborate with other functions and assist in developing suppliers.
• Maintain aggressive cost containment program.
• Develop deferred tooling expense budgets for assigned commodities based on company quality, delivery cost, service and reliability requirements.
• Prepare requests for quotes for multi-year full production quantities. 
• Lead reduction of overall cost of purchased parts through sourcing, process or tooling improvements, productivity gains, and AIF schedules.
• Supports the global corporate purchasing activities.
• Recommends supplier process utilization by interpreting blueprints and evaluating customer needs. 
• Explore and aggressively pursue cost reduction opportunities
• Explores available and new technologies in the market and implements best practices related to purchasing activities.
• Develops new suppliers that meet Solero cost, quality and delivery requirements. 
• Evaluates part designs with engineering, quality and suppliers to obtain optimum efficiencies.
• Participates in purchasing related internal meetings, including making presentations to senior management. Support monthly cost reduction report with inputs in the commodity of responsibility (ies). 
• Maintains complex spreadsheets containing supply base data, including piece prices breakdown, part weight, volumes, suppliers name, long-range planning info. 
• Understands and adheres to current quality and control policies. 
• Understands and adheres to current health, safety, and environmental policies. 
• Communicates and enforces safe work procedures.     
• Identifies and closes safety issues (suggestions, inspection and investigation findings) and their corrective actions.