Senior Buyer
Company: Schneider Packaging Equipment
Location: Brewerton
Posted on: September 18, 2023
Job Description:
Objectives of this Role The Senior Buyer is responsible for
Purchasing goods, materials and services to ensure that the
company's operational needs are met, taking into account price,
quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply. The
primary focus of this role will be fabrications, machined parts,
raw materials, and part finishing.Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare and place orders for materials and supplies to
support.
- Confirm prices and delivery of all orders.
- Expedite critical and late orders; communicate required
information to engineering, and operations.
- Develop secondary supply sources for critical parts and
processes.
- Review existing pricing and develop strategic plan for cost and
cycle time reduction.
- Support negotiations with suppliers for assigned commodities to
achieve the best price, quality, and schedule.
- Assist engineering in the creating of new parts, R&D
projects, cost reduction and quality improvement projects.
- Monitor vendor performance and actively work toward continuous
improvement of delivery, quality, and cost.
- Utilize organization-wide purchasing policies and ensure
compliance.
- Maintain all required records of purchases, prices, and
deliveries.
- Serve as the technical resource in matters related to changing
market conditions.
- Support Finance and Global Purchasing activities by providing
purchase price variance analysis, performing standard cost review,
and facilitating cost of sales activities.
- Participation in cost reduction activities to meet Purchasing
targets.
- Work cross functionally with the shop to monitor capacity with
focus on internal versus external sourcing.
- Develop make versus buy models to be utilized in the decision
making of part sourcing.
- Review costs of internal shop orders to ensure accuracy of
labor and material, and update job costs and WIP as required
- Review and correct shop order exceptions.
- Track inventory costs, outages, and long lead items, and
communicate to the operations team
- Perform other related duties as assigned by management.Skills
and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, supply chain or
related field preferred
- 3+ years of related experience in a manufacturing purchasing
environment desirable
- Any equivalent combination of education, training, and
experience
- Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation, commercial
understanding and cost breakdown
- ERP experience is preferred
- Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, CAD files,
tooling specifications and electronics material specifications
- Advanced computer skills, including the use of Windows, Outlook
and Microsoft Office
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working
relationships with senior management, supervisors, vendors, and
employeesPhysical/Mental Standards
- Ability to operate a computer.
- Manual dexterity sufficient for constant use of a keyboard,
mouse, and telephone. Speech and hearing sufficient for regular
communications. Vision sufficient for use of a computer monitor and
transaction documents.
- Ability to sit and stand for long periods of time.
- Ability to perform climbing, stooping, crouching, walking,
grasping, talking, hearing and repetitive motions.
- Executing up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to
20 pounds of force frequently, and or 10 pounds of force constantly
to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move
objects.SCH22PI229407558
Keywords: Schneider Packaging Equipment, Syracuse , Senior Buyer, Accounting, Auditing , Brewerton, New York
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