Buyer III

Westmoreland•Billings, MT

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Working independently, this role locates, evaluates, and purchases parts, materials, and services in accordance with company purchasing policies and procedures. The position involves managing complex bids with annual purchases potentially exceeding $15M, evaluating sourcing alternatives, and ensuring supplier performance goals are met. It also includes establishing forward purchase agreements, aligning purchases with stocking levels, and managing strategic supply agreements. The Buyer III serves as the key procurement liaison for capital spend, ensuring optimal cost and timely delivery, and develops relationships with stakeholders to gather necessary information. The role involves competitively bidding and purchasing various items for the company, seeking out new materials and methods to improve productivity and minimize costs, and reviewing stock and direct orders. Additionally, the Buyer III partners with warehouse and accounts payable personnel to resolve shipping, receiving, and invoicing issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.
Minimum 5 years of related work experience, including Excel-based bid analysis and coordinating truck and cross-border shipments.
Any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities.
Analytical skills.
Problem solving skills.
Communication skills.
Organizational skills.
Negotiation skills.
Interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

Continually monitors the price, specifications, quality, transportation and delivery schedules for all purchases.
Manages Complex Bids with annual purchases that could exceed $15M.
Evaluates sourcing alternatives to identify the best source and value based upon established policy.
Ensures supplier performance goals are measured against established goals and business objectives.
Establishes forward purchase agreements to establish best price and availability for parts and materials.
Aligns purchases with agreed upon stocking levels to optimize working capital performance.
Manage strategic supply agreements and builds relationships with suppliers.
Ensures capital spend is delivered at optimal cost and on time per schedule and serves as the key procurement liaison with internal team and external suppliers.
Develop relationships with stakeholders on locating items and information needed to accomplish duties if applicable based upon contract arrangement.
Competitively bids and purchases parts, materials, services and equipment at the best value for Westmoreland.
Continually seeks out new updated parts, materials and methods that may improve productivity and/or minimize costs and provides feedback to operations and maintenance personnel.
Reviews stock orders and direct orders for purchase and assigns items for purchase to other buyers.
Partners with warehouse personnel to resolve shipping and receiving problems and accounts payable to resolve invoicing problems.
Perform related work as required.