Manufacturing Buyer

The Overhead Door•Pensacola, FL

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Buyer II is a site-facing procurement professional responsible for an assigned portfolio of direct and indirect materials, with emphasis on steel, chemicals, and component hardware for high-volume manufacturing. The role operates with greater autonomy than Buyer I and leads sourcing events, multi-supplier negotiations, supplier performance improvement, cost improvement, inventory optimization, and supply-risk mitigation. The Buyer II uses JD Edwards or Oracle, MRP, plant-level Kanban, advanced Excel analytics, and tier-board visibility to protect production continuity and manage supplier OTIF, purchase-price variance, inventory turns, backorders, and data integrity through the Oracle transition. This role directly affects supplier delivery, purchase cost, inventory, master-data quality, and uninterrupted manufacturing execution. Success requires strong sourcing discipline, daily purchase-order management, validated cost improvement, reliable supplier performance, early shortage mitigation, and effective support of the Oracle transition.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or three to five or more years of progressive manufacturing-purchasing experience.
Proficiency in JD Edwards or Oracle purchasing and MRP systems and Kanban workflows.
Strong Excel capability, including lookups, pivots, and basic modeling.
Success managing metals, chemicals, or other long-lead or high-volatility commodities.
Experience running RFQs, negotiating sourcing awards, and managing suppliers to performance indicators.
Knowledge of price-break analysis, total cost of ownership, purchase-price variance, and freight and lead-time trade-offs.
Strong open-order, expedite, RCCM, PDCA, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to maintain regular manufacturing-floor presence and follow PPE and safety requirements.
Ability to travel approximately 5% to 10% to suppliers, ASD sites, or corporate locations.

Nice To Haves

Power Query or Power BI experience.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end sourcing for assigned categories, including market research, RFQs, cost analysis, award recommendations, and contract execution.
Lead supplier quarterly business reviews and set measurable price, OTIF, quality, and responsiveness goals.
Drive supplier corrective actions and escalate or transition chronic underperformance.
Develop multi-source, dual-source, safety-stock, and expediting strategies for critical commodities.
Convert MRP and Kanban signals into on-time purchase orders.
Manage open orders daily, including acknowledgments, reschedules, expedites, and cancellations.
Manage backorders and shortages with Production, Scheduling, and Receiving.
Protect the weekly SIOP build plan and prevent line interruptions.
Deliver year-over-year purchase-price variance and total-cost improvement.
Use price analysis, should-cost thinking, price-break analysis, freight trade-offs, and logistics optimization.
Set reorder points and Kanban quantities and reduce excess and obsolete inventory.
Build Excel, Power Query, or Power BI models for demand, lead-time, expedite, and hot-list visibility.
Maintain accurate item-master and vendor-master data, including lead times, minimum-order quantities, economic-order quantities, price breaks, calendars, and ship-from and ship-to data.
Use JD Edwards or Oracle purchasing and MRP systems and support the Oracle transition; reduce system noise through disciplined master-data integrity.
Follow procurement SOPs, ethical standards, and applicable regulations.
Support conflict-minerals, safety-data-sheet, chemical-handling, and EHS vendor requirements.
Partner with Quality and EHS on supplier nonconformances and corrective-action requests; support safe handling and transportation of materials.
Lead or co-lead Kaizen events for material flow, receiving efficiency, and inventory accuracy.
Apply RCCM, PDCA, root-cause analysis, and standard work to recurring shortages and process gaps.
Coach Buyer I employees and Coordinators on purchase-order hygiene, follow-up cadence, and supplier communication.
Serve as backup for the Procurement Manager when needed.
Operate with autonomy, urgency, and disciplined open-order management; use data and advanced analytics to anticipate demand, supply, cost, and risk.
Lead effective supplier negotiations and performance reviews, coach less-experienced procurement employees, and model strong supplier communication.
Escalate quickly when production continuity is at risk and demonstrate flexibility during the Oracle transition.
Maintain regular manufacturing-floor presence and follow PPE and safety requirements.
Travel approximately 5% to 10% to suppliers, ASD sites, or corporate locations.