Buyer I

Adtran

18d

About The Position

Welcome! Our Growth is Creating Great Opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it! Once you've had a chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best and keep track of both your progress in the selection process, and new postings that might interest you! Thanks for your interest in working on our team! Adtran is a leading global provider of fiber-based networking solutions and SaaS applications, focused on the broadband access market. Our comprehensive portfolio spans from the metro core to the customer premises, enabling network providers to deliver Gigabit broadband to every home and business. Our vision is to enable a fully connected world where the power to communicate is available to everyone, everywhere. At Adtran, we believe in our people. With a diverse and inclusive team spread across the globe, our culture embraces creativity and seeks innovation and quality in everything we do. Built on a foundation of communication, trust, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit enables us to be a global technology leader and a strong customer advocate. Adtran began operations in January 1986. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Adtran is located in Cummings Research Park - the second-largest research park in the U.S. and fourth-largest in the world. Our mailing address is 901 Explorer Boulevard, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806. Adtran, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adtran Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN and FSE: QH9). Find out more at adtran.com, or follow our story on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economic Science, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
Experience in Supply Chain / Purchasing is welcome
Good knowledge in MS Office and ERP landscapes (SAP or similar)
Team orientation, high motivation, responsiveness, assertiveness, commitment
Good command of English and German languages
A pro-active approach of getting things done to fulfill costumer expectations
Open minded and communicative to manage critical situations and represent a “can do” attitude
Representing the Adtran goals and culture
Representing the Operations Vision
No fear of making mistakes, representing and owning decisions
To set expectation up front and always manage them
Not to promise what cannot be delivered, but stretching the comfort zone
To be able to deliver bad news promptly and with a plan

Responsibilities

Secure the Adtran on-time-delivery targets
Schedule and monitor purchase orders in order to meet our requested delivery date
Major interface to the Demand Planning teams to support material inflow according to customer requirements
Lead and push continuous improvement in terms of on-time-delivery performance, production utilization, order-confirmation-time from the suppliers and contract manufacturers
Balance between service level and inventory level
Support planning concepts for finished goods, half-finished goods and raw material (e.g. buffer stock, master data)
Stay connected to Demand Planning to answer requests regarding lead times, supply capabilities, on-time-delivery, material availabilities and pull & push activities
Develop and control actions to support division, departmental and personal goals (e.g. stocks, on-time-delivery, lead times)
Contribute to strategic concepts as part of a Supply Chain Planning team
Lead and participate in projects to support the continuous improvement process within the organization
Track and trace on-time-delivery performance in the form of required meeting cycles, data reporting and process improvements
Participate in Supply Chain projects to support continuous improvement process
Represent SCM and Supply Planning Function in Adtran projects
Support ERP System improvements by reporting of functional bug’s and defining improvement requests