Job # PRP25401
Job Title Buyer
Office Location Brookshire, TX
Business Function/Department Logistics & Procurement/Sourcing
Sales Territory, if applicable N/A
General Role Description
Source, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to achieve optimal cost, quality, and service and to meet commercial requirements
Role Accountabilities
- Analyze business unit needs to mitigate assigned products supply and delivery risks, recommend appropriate solutions, and implement as approved
- Research new equipment suppliers utilizing the Company’s quality system
- Identify and recommend new suppliers to develop globally to support business unit needs and lower costs
- Negotiate with assigned suppliers to achieve lower material costs and on time delivery
- Gather data to manage performance evaluation of assigned product’s supplier and submit to manager
- Gather data to negotiate terms and conditions, payment terms, and other financial terms and agreements with suppliers, as requested
- Recommend risk assessment and abatement plan to meet budgets, targets, and schedules and provide to Sourcing Manager to present to business units
- Track non-conformance reports, cost of quality and prepare for supplier recovery activities
- Generate the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) buyer’s report that identifies the requisitions to be processed and determine order of priority
- Evaluate committed dates for order placement and delivery, in collaboration with business unit management
- Notify expeditors of orders which must be expedited in addition to those scheduled in the ERP
- Organize supplier meetings to update business unit engineers on the latest technology and products
- Obtain competitive quotes for equipment and material requisitions
- Reconcile PO and invoice discrepancies with the finance department and suppliers
- Initiate new supplier set-up documentation and submit to finance department
- Notify finance department of new “ship-to” locations of suppliers
- Process completed requisitions, enter data as required, and forward to Purchasing Specialist
- Advise project managers and business unit engineers of equipment delivery schedules in a timely manner
- Provide timely updates on subcontractor performance, market trends, and supplier relationships to management
- Ensure purchase orders are issued with correct terms to minimize cost and liability to the Company
General Employee Accountabilities
- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
- Give manager best advice
- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
- Recommend viable improvements proactively
- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
- 2 years of experience purchasing in an industrial or commercial environment
- 1 year of experience sourcing new suppliers
- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and ERP
- Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice
Preferred Qualifications
- 1 year of experience negotiating agreements
- Purchasing experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international, industrial environment
- Advanced Excel skills
- Proficiency in Oracle
Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website: https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.
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