Buyer/Purchasing

Lilly • Concord, NC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Buyer/Purchaser is responsible for purchasing activities supporting the Concord, NC manufacturing site. This role primarily supports analysis of purchasing needs, placing orders with suppliers, ensuring proper inventory levels are maintained, and general support of the supply chain and logistics team, including Shop Floor Control, Material Requirements Planning, and Purchasing processes. This role interfaces with both internal and external teams to achieve key site objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience in manufacturing, procurement, or supply chain function
• Minimum of 3 years work experience
• Experience in a pharmaceutical environment
• SAP experience
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for employment positions on the P path.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work independently with little day-to-day direction.
• Strong communication skills
• Capability to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE objectives.
• Collaborate with other functions as teams as appropriate.
• APICS CPIM certification OSSCE knowledge and experience
• Advanced SAP experience 5+ years of work experience desired

Responsibilities

• Analyze inventory levels of items within SAP and act as needed (placing purchase orders, etc.)
• Place purchase orders (PO) with vendors providing proper lead time to allow production orders to be released on-time
• Monitor and adjust PO quantity and delivery dates as needed. Build strong relationships with external vendors and internal team.
• Forecast and manage material expirations and revisions to prevent production schedule disruptions and minimize destructions and obsolescence.
• Oversight of material data, such as reorder points, safety stocks, lead times, and lot sizes
• Setup new material purchasing data in SAP Work closely with production planners/schedulers and project teams to ensure production needs are met.
• Troubleshoot receiving issues with POs and communicate to vendors on documentation needed to perform receipt.
• Track and report purchasing metrics, including On-time deliveries, On-time PO release, Past due POs, and On-time Incoming inspection.
• Project leadership and participation for process improvements, material revisions, launches, etc.
• Partnership with finance/procurement on evaluation of materials for slow-moving/obsolete inventory (SMOI) and obsolete inventory for destruction
• Process material destructions Coordination of test materials for project support
• Completion of investigations and tasks in deviation management system
• Support the start-up of the Concord, NC site, partnering with quality, planning, and procurement to purchase raw materials required for both start-up activities and routine operations.
• Create procedures / processes for the purchasing process.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

What This Job Offers

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