Buyer II - Indirect Material Procurements

Seagate Technology • Bloomington, MN

21d • Onsite

About The Position

Indirect Materials Procurement is responsible for the procurement of indirect material including but not limited to; spare parts, production supply, packaging, facility supplies, tooling / fabrication, services for the factory. This role involves budget planning, supplier management, and inventory control to support the operational needs.

Requirements

• Critical thinking skills
• Excellent leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent negotiating skills to secure the best prices
• Purchasing and supplier management skills
• Excellent computer skills (SAP ERP, Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint) are a must
• Bachelor’s degree and/or related experience

Nice To Haves

• Excellent data analytic and data science skills (Excel, Knime, Alteryx, Power BI, Python) is preferable

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze purchase requisitions
• Coordinate purchasing activities with manufacturing, facility, engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner
• Process Request for Quotation, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and change requests if any
• Be responsible for procurement of business system data input and integrity
• Participate in maximizing the procurement teams' changes, supplier database information, error report analysis and supplier information
• Perform cost analysis and work with requesters for volume planning for major commodities (e.g. materials, components, equipment and services)
• Monitor the cost, schedule and scope of assigned suppliers to negotiate highest quality at best value
• Interact closely with Internal Stakeholder & suppliers of any quality concerned related to resolve quality issues
• Escalate critical issues to the relevant stakeholders and superiors

Benefits

• eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
• medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• short-and long-term disability
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchase plan
• health savings account
• dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts
• paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level