Buyer

UltraSource LLC•Kansas City, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Since its founding in 1883, UltraSource has served the processing and packaging equipment needs of thousands of companies worldwide in the meat and poultry, seafood, produce and dairy industries. The company offers a comprehensive range of products, enabling custom-tailored equipment solutions that meet the production line objectives, labor goals, budget constraints, and brand image of its customers. UltraSource's quality program ensures products are engineered and produced to meet or exceed customer requirements, with reliability, maintainability, and safety being central to their engineering strategy and dedication to quality. The Buyer position is responsible for controlling inventory levels, working with various departments to determine product needs, executing procurement plans, and managing vendor relationships to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of materials and components.

Requirements

Highschool/ GED Required.
3-10 yrs related experience.
Experience with domestic and international purchase orders.
Advanced experience with Microsoft Office.
Strong negotiation skills are a must.
Ability to work and communicate effectively with sales team, manufacturing, leaders as well as vendors.
Highly analytical, motivated and accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Associates or bachelor's preferred.
ERP/ MRP and inventory management experience are preferred.
Experience with ERP software, Dynamics 365 preferred.

Responsibilities

Controls the levels of inventory on materials, parts or products by ensuring planning parameters are accurately maintained in the ERP system.
Work with production, engineering, and sales to determine product needs and planning/schedules appropriately.
Conduct and execute procurement plans to ensure all inventory is delivered to specification at the negotiated prices.
Identify and drive process improvements to negotiate price, quality and quantity of materials and components with vendors.
Collects the product requirements form sales, engineering, and production.
Works with vendors to obtain drawings, technical datasheets, prices, order minimums and multiples.
Maintain information in the ERP system.
Reviews bid proposals and negotiates with multiple vendors within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
Build relationships with current and new suppliers, as well as sourcing backup suppliers for critical items to mitigate production issues and bottlenecks.
Identify and drive process improvements to reduce lead time, inventory levels and improve supplier delivery and quality.
Process, approve and deliver purchase orders to meet targeted inventory goals.
Monitors past due orders and expedites delivery of goods form vendors required.
Works with engineering, production and finance to review and manage purchase price variance (PPV) and manufacturing variance.
Helps resolve receiving issues and approves invoice exceptions (quantity or price differences from the PO) for payment by accounting.
Experience with domestic and international purchase orders.