Senior Buyer

The Senior Buyer is responsible for placing, tracking, and expediting materials, services, and equipment purchases. This is a senior level purchasing position that will work with established suppliers and lead strategic sourcing initiatives to identify and qualify new suppliers for Click Bond.

Requirements

• Ensure the precise and timely procurement of quality raw materials to meet manufacturing schedule requirements.
• Efficiently and accurately procure non-inventory and outside processing requirements for goods and services as assigned.
• Maintain and verify the accuracy of ERP data to ensure reliable and efficient operations.
• Mentor and advise the more junior members of the purchasing team as needed.
• Lead strategic sourcing efforts to identify potential new sources for materials, services, and equipment, resulting in improved quality, delivery, and pricing.
• Eliminate single source supplier situations wherever possible, resulting in increased sourcing capability and enhanced negotiation leverage.
• Collaborate with quality, engineering, finance, and manufacturing teams to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.
• Request and assess supplier proposals for completeness, specification compliance, pricing, conformance to quality standards and scheduling requirements.
• Remain current with new developments in market trends and technology, and communicate new products, services, and developments to internal stakeholders.
• Update and distribute monthly supplier performance scorecards to their assigned suppliers.
• Update vendor master and vendor part data in our ERP system, to reflect current and accurate lead times, pricing, and minimum order quantities.
• Assure supplier compliance to established Click Bond Freight Routing Guides, to effectively control inbound freight costs.
• Report immediately all suspicious and hazardous conditions to a supervisor.
• Understand and observe all safety guidelines and assure quality and safety by complying with all appropriate Click Bond policies and procedures.
• Assist in maintaining clean, orderly, and hazard-free work areas.
• Able to work with minimal supervision, be a self-starter and be detail oriented.