Buyer Ii - Roseville, United States - PRIDE Industries

PRIDE Industries

Verified Company

Roseville, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Pay Rate:
$23.69 to $25.

00

Telecommute Status:
Hybrid How many days a week at a regular work location?: 3 days onsite Announcement:

PRIDE Industries is a fast-paced company with a mission: To Create Jobs for People with Disabilities while providing high quality, value-added solutions to our nationwide customers.

We are currently recruiting to fill the following position:

Job Description:

PRIDE Industries

Job:
Buyer II

Job Code:
M5- PR-Buyer II

HR Title Group:
Customer Service and Procurement

Salary Grade:
N18

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Approval Date:
March 2022

SUPERVISES:

There are no direct reports with this position.

***: Under general supervision, the Buyer II purchases goods, services, equipment, and supplies critical to the success of all PRIDE Industries' businesses. Employees in this job classification possess the business acumen to negotiate effectively and maintain profitable relationships. This job requires knowledge of materials purchased, purchasing best practices, and procedures.

TYPICAL DUTIES:

1. *Processes purchase orders for parts, components, goods, services, equipment, and supplies in support of customer requirements.

Follows established procedures and policies to contact vendors, obtain quotes, choose suppliers, place orders and expedite or escalate orders when needed.

Enters and maintains PO information in PRIDE's and customer's system, as required.

2.

*Partners with internal and external customer teams, and freight forwarders to ensure accurate recording of procured products in financial systems.

Tracks open purchase orders and resolves discrepancies related to price changes, missing products, damaged shipments, product returns and billing errors.

Uses problem solving skills to work directly with vendors to obtain status updates and problem resolution.

3. *Actively communicates and corresponds with internal and external customers regarding order confirmation, problems, issues, and notices. Provides accurate information, resolves problems, or routes to appropriate personnel. Communicates timely updates via internal and customer systems and tools.

4. *Works closely with Accounting and Receiving Departments to resolve issues and ensures accuracy and timeliness of the Procure-to-Pay process.

5. *Collaborates with PRIDE business planners to ensure vendor part pipeline alignment to demand, utilizing order reschedule signal reports. Optimizes inventory weeks-of-supply by executing cancellations, expedites, and/or order push-outs. Uses knowledge of systems and tools to set and maintain order intervals consistent with ABC inventory objectives.

6. *Develops and provides management with meaningful metrics for procurement team and supplier performance, ongoing and as requested.

Metrics include, but are not limited to, procurement team performance (PO placement TATs, acknowledgment percentages to TAT goal, delivery performance and team cost avoidance/cost savings) reported by business aggregate, by supplier, by customer, if appropriate.

7. *Actively participates and may present data in department and customer meetings. Collaborates and engages with customer key personnel to ensure alignment at supplier relationship and performance levels. Engages in product and part lifecycle event planning and preparation, as well as supplier performance management activities. Escalates as needed.

8.

*Collaborates with appropriate internal and external customers to ensure all procurement supporting lifecycle event activities are complete and support overall New Product Introduction, part roll, and end of life supply, meeting milestone target dates.

9. *Creates and maintains Strategic Supplier balance scorecards and provides performance narrative, which include corrective action plans when warranted.

10. *Engages in procurement projects and training.

Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.
Denotes Essential Job Function

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Three years of experience in inventory, purchasing and/or accounts payable/receivable;
Ability to demonstrate sound judgment, optimizing highquality and most costeffective procurement sourcing decisions;
Experience working in a Service Support Supply Chain environment;
Familiarity with Lifecycle planning events (NPI, part roll, discontinuance, and end of life support);
Experience participating and leading projects aimed at providing balance results (E.g., cost reduction without compromising customer service level);
Progress toward APIC preferred;
Familiarity with purchasing, and procurement processes and practices, and the manufacturing environment;
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; to make presentations and respond to inquiries by management, team, vendors and/or customers;
Human relation skills to build effective relationships with team and internal customers;
Intermediate to advanced computer literacy including knowledge of word pr