Buyer

Tremco Construction Products Group•Hudson, NC

72d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves assuming transactional responsibility for ERP purchasing, ensuring sufficient inventory levels for production and customer orders, and producing relevant reports. The position also focuses on working with vendors to achieve the best price, quality, delivery, and service, and developing innovative approaches for packaging material reduction and consolidation. Long-term objectives include ensuring the integrity of vendor transactions, optimizing inventory fill rates, collaborating on packaging design, improving vendor transaction accuracy to 100%, and developing a packaging improvement plan.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent
1-2 years purchasing experience
Experience and knowledge of purchasing system with an integrated ERP system, Microsoft D365 preferred
Experience and knowledge of Microsoft products (Excel preferred)
Strong organizational, communication and negotiation skills

Nice To Haves

Four year business degree
Experience operating in an ERP system operating environment
Experience in a lean (flow) manufacturing environment
Experience in marine coatings preferred
Experience in commodity purchases preferred

Responsibilities

Assume transactional responsibility for ERP purchasing transactions.
Keep inventory at sufficient levels for items to fulfill requirements of production, and maintaining delivery of customer orders.
Produce and review reports for purchasing, production planning, and inventory control.
Work with and through others to obtain the best price, quality, delivery and service possible.
Create an innovative approach for the reduction and consolidation of packaging materials.
Be responsible for the integrity of all transactions between our outside vendors and our company.
Work with inventory planners to keep inventory levels at the optimum fill rate for our customers.
Work with all departments to design/develop packaging which is optimized to benefit the WFG, and its customers.
Improve transaction accuracy with our vendors to 100%.
Develop a packaging improvement plan covering largest opportunities, and benefits to the end use customers.