Job Title: Buyer
Job Location: Riverside, CA
Job Type: 12 Months Contract
Job Description:
Job Summary:
The Buyer will be responsible for daily purchasing tasks including but not limited to maintaining stock levels, creating PO’s, building supplier relationships, following up on open orders, and providing customer updates on outstanding purchase orders. The Buyer will be responsible for using industry best practices and strategies to assist in the negotiation of cost and contract discussions. The Buyer will own the relationship with the assigned suppliers and be responsible for performance metrics of those suppliers. The Buyer will be responsible for researching, negotiating, and onboarding new sources of supply. Also, will be accountable to identify key projects to improve the purchasing process.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and update BOM and/or matrices for material within assigned commodities
• Create PO’s to vendors

o Plan and schedule material using the Production Schedule

• Review work order and submit questions to assist in clarification of product build requirements for assigned commodities.
• Open PO Report

o Follow-up and resolve open design items for assigned commodities

o If past delivery date, follow up with vendor

• Update Item Records
• Update PO’s and resend to vendor
• Handle Sales and Engineering inquiries on assigned commodities
• Maintain purchase orders by:

o Provide Tracking/shipment POD
o Updated Shipping dates

o Expedite PO’s

• PO Acknowledgement

o Update PO confirmation tab

• Investigate Reoccurring problems

o Cost issues, missed ship dates, UOM issues, etc.

• Own supplier relationships for assigned commodities
• Onboarding new suppliers
• Vendor performance metrics
• Contract/Cost Negotiation
• Collaborate with vendors on process and price improvements
• Research new supply sources
• Strategic Sourcing planning and process implementation
• TCO and Cost out opportunities
• Project management with cross functional teams with the goal of cost reduction/innovation
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements (education, experience, travel, physical, work environment):

• Associate’s Degree in Supply Chain, a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5-8 years’ related work experience.
• Expert in the use of Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
• Experience with SAP purchasing system preferred.

Job Type: Contract
Pay: $29.15 - $43.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• If interested, please leave your email, contact number and best time to reach you

Experience:

• SAP purchasing system: 2 years (Preferred)
• Buyer/ Purchaser with manufacturing: 6 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In perso

• Develop, maintain and update BOM and/or matrices for material within assigned commodities
• Create PO’s to vendor