Buyer

Medline Industries, LP • Arlington Heights, IL

13d • $67,000 - $101,000

About The Position

The Buyer analyzes, plans, and executes purchase orders with international and domestic vendors and provides direction to expeditors. The role procures raw materials, MRO items, and services, forecasts item consumption, manages purchase orders to meet demand, and coordinates supplier production, shipping, and documentation. The Buyer monitors inventory and service objectives, maintains APO and SAP MRP parameters, identifies potential supply issues, and informs management of problems while providing solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to assimilate diverse information and communicate across internal departments and external vendors.
• Basic skills with SAP and Coupa systems.
• Intermediate Microsoft Word skills, such as inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers, and tables, or adjusting table columns.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills, such as using SUM, setting borders and column widths, inserting charts, wrapping text, sorting, setting headers and footers, and print scaling.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and volume.
• Ability to apply basic algebra and statistics concepts to interpret and understand relationships in SAP.

Nice To Haves

• At least 2 years of related experience.
• Experience with SAP, Access, and/or FoxPro.
• Experience with APIC CPIM.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for raw materials, MRO, and services in SAP and Coupa.
• Predict future item consumption to plan purchase orders.
• Manage purchase orders to meet demand by reviewing historical data and SNP/MRP/forecast requirements.
• Negotiate and coordinate production capacities and manufacturing requirements.
• Direct supplier shipping to maintain sufficient supply, manageable monthly turnover, minimal surplus charges, and consistent production scheduling.
• Alert division staff to potential supply issues and escalate urgent issues.
• Maintain APO and SAP MRP parameters.
• Review daily, weekly, and monthly reports to ensure inventory, service, surplus, and other goals are met.
• Manage purchase order quantities, shipment dates, and delivery dates to ensure accuracy of MRP requirements.
• Send shipment confirmations to customers.
• Coordinate with expeditors to ensure factories meet shipment and documentation requirements.
• Review sourcing and quota arrangements to ensure correct procurement sourcing.
• Inform senior management of problem situations and provide solutions as appropriate.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package.
• Continuing education and training.
• Health insurance for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average.
• Life insurance for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average.
• Disability insurance for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average.
• 401(k) contributions.
• Paid time off.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups, and the Employee Service Corp for employees working fewer than 30 hours per week.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time