Buyer

at  Legrand North America

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management or Business or equivalent years of experience.
• Two+ years purchasing materials.
• MRP or ERP software experience required, Infor Cloudsuite (Syteline) preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Flexibility to adjust and thrive in an environment with changing requirements, schedules, and priorities for multiple projects and assignments.
• Strong desire to promote positive change.
• Ability to work in a global culture with peers and colleagues.
• Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Well-developed communicates skills; able to clearly and concisely express information (or data) to associates, peers, and management.
• Knowledge of customer principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for service and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to understand, place and track complex PO’s involving multiple sites/countries, departments, and interconnected suppliers.
• Contributes to the implementation and ensure usage of globally defined methods, processes, and systems to ensure high process efficiency and process compliance.
  Company Info:

• Plans and issues purchase orders in support of engineering and production requirements; expedite past due orders and work backlog reports as needed.
• Manages supplier relationships and works to improve “overall” supplier performance.
• Work with planning and sourcing to ensure that sufficient parts are on hand to meet short range schedules for make-to-order products.
• Monitors and communicates supplier performance for delivery, quality, and cost management.
• Evaluates data, weekly inventory reports, and other data resources in determining purchase order quantities.
• Performs other Procurement-related administrative tasks including, but not limited to, Invoice Discrepancy Resolution, Payment Authorizations, Compiling Statistical data and Reports, Maintaining Partnership meeting minutes, etc.
• Set-up and maintains Supplier Management processes (e.g. qualification, selection, evaluation, development, classification).
• Establishes inventory requirements by studying manufacturing history and production forecasts.
• Identifies and follows-up on internal customer issues, implement approved process improvements resulting in increased customer satisfaction, when needed.
• Clearly communicate order status of orders to sales reps, managers, and production personnel.
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