Materials - Buyer - Direct – Entry

Iconma Portal•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Materials - Buyer - Direct supports supply continuity to enable manufacturing with speed and quality. The role follows standard purchasing business processes and requires knowledge and experience in its discipline while continuing to build higher-level skills and knowledge of the company, its processes, and its customers. It addresses a range of straightforward problems by analyzing potential solutions using standard procedures, with a moderate level of guidance and direction. The buyer follows up on orders, verifies deliveries, approves payments, and maintains necessary records. The position works with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of parts, manage demand and supply changes, reduce excess and zero-demand inventory, and resolve supply, shipment, receiving, and billing issues. It also negotiates and executes purchases and requests for quotes to achieve the lowest cost while considering quality, source reliability, and urgency.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
1–2 years of related experience.
Solid understanding of the industry’s key business drivers.
Good communication and interpersonal skills to explain complex information to others.
Competencies include creativity; supplier selection; excess-and-zero-demand inventory; supplier problem resolution, monitoring, relationship management, capability, and capacity; dispute management; change control; requests for quotes; supplier negotiations; problem solving; allocation management; shortage management; MRP execution; material cost management (PPV); purchase order management; influencing; and exception handling, at the experience levels indicated in the posting.

Responsibilities

Ensure supply continuity to enable manufacturing with speed and quality.
Follow up on orders, verify delivery, approve payment, and maintain necessary records.
Adhere to standard purchasing business processes.
Drive timely delivery and shipment of parts from suppliers to factories, resolving shipment, receiving, and billing issues with suppliers.
Partner with suppliers on demand and supply collaboration.
Execute and manage pull-ins and push-outs with suppliers to meet MRP demand.
Drive inventory and excess-and-zero-demand reduction efforts.
Negotiate and execute purchases and requests for quotes to achieve the lowest cost while considering quality, source reliability, and urgency.
Drive resolution of supply issues with key stakeholders, including engineering, manufacturing, and Program Managers, with support from managers.