Buyer

VOLT • SAN DIEGO, CA

20d • Onsite

About The Position

Volt is immediately hiring a Buyer in San Diego, CA. As a Buyer, you will be responsible for day-to-day and strategic supplier management. This includes purchase order placement, follow-up, issue resolution, communication of demand and forecasts, preparing contracts, negotiating contract terms, managing supplier relationships and performance metrics, facilitating communications, and mitigating risk that could impact the company’s ability to meet the business plan. You will manage spend of $5M - $40M. You will develop and maintain relationships with internal clients and lower-level suppliers. You will monitor and manage ownership of risk from financial, business continuation, and compliance perspectives. You will ensure procurement processes meet audit, regulatory, and legal standards and maintain all detailed documentation for performing the role. Contract Management involves developing agreements that align with sourcing strategies. You will be integral in tracking contract execution, leading contract teams, closing contracts, and enforcing any applicable rights beyond contract completion. You will work closely with users defining supplier performance measurements and reporting frameworks and manage the transition process when changing contracted suppliers. Negotiation requires the ability to collect and synthesize a complete data package as well as assist in developing the strategy in preparation of negotiation. You will ethically execute negotiation strategies for low criticality/low complexity items displaying varied negotiation techniques to achieve best results and identify and resolve areas of risk. Supplier Selection & Management is an integral part of the supplier selection process and managing the relationships of existing suppliers. You will manage the performance of low to moderately complex suppliers. Cost Management involves applying business strategies to daily activities, contributing to make-buy decisions, and identifying market opportunities, gaps, and trends. You will understand, apply, and coach others in building and analyzing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models. Purchasing Execution includes resolving high complexity purchasing-related grief issues with minimal assistance. You will develop, recommend, and provide training/mentorship around purchasing processes, process changes, and procurement tools. You will execute risk mitigation strategies to avoid Supply Chain disruption and validate data integrity, identify data gaps, and update & correct system data.

Requirements

• A completed Bachelors degree
• 3 – 5 years of purchasing experience preferably within the aerospace, mechanical or machining type industry
• Be able to pass a pre-employment criminal background check and drug test
• Must be local to the San Diego area

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day and strategic supplier management
• Purchase order placement, follow-up, issue resolution
• Communication of demand and forecasts
• Preparing contracts
• Negotiating contract terms
• Managing supplier relationships and performance metrics
• Facilitating communications
• Mitigating risk that could impact the company’s ability to meet the business plan
• Manage spend of $5M - $40M
• Develops and maintains relationships with internal clients and lower-level suppliers
• Monitors and manages ownership of risk from financial, business continuation, and compliance perspectives
• Ensures procurement processes meet audit, regulatory, and legal standards
• Maintains all detailed documentation for performing the role
• Develops agreements that align with sourcing strategies
• Tracking contract execution, leading contract teams, closing contracts, and enforcing any applicable rights beyond contract completion
• Works closely with users defining supplier performance measurements and reporting frameworks
• Manages the transition process when changing contracted suppliers
• Collect and synthesize a complete data package as well as assist in developing the strategy in preparation of negotiation
• Ethically execute negotiation strategies for low criticality/low complexity items displaying varied negotiation techniques to achieve best results
• Identifies and resolves areas of risk
• Integral part of supplier selection process and managing the relationships of existing suppliers
• Manages performance of low to moderately complex suppliers
• Applies business strategies to daily activities, contributes to make-buy decisions, identifies market opportunities, gaps and trends
• Understands, applies and coaches others in building and analyzing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models
• Resolves high complexity purchasing related grief issues with minimal assistance
• Develops, recommends, and provides training/mentorship around purchasing processes, process changes, and procurement tools
• Executes risk mitigation strategies to avoid Supply Chain disruption
• Validates data integrity, identifies data gaps, and updates & corrects system data

Benefits

• health
• dental
• vision
• term life
• short term disability
• AD&D
• 401(k)
• Sick time
• other types of paid leaves (as required by law)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

What This Job Offers

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