Operational Buyer, Poultry, NA

JBT Marel•Gainesville, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At JBT Marel, our purpose is to transform the future of food, guiding our vision to be the global leader in food and beverage technology by harnessing the full power of JBT Marel to partner with our customers and pioneer sustainable innovation. Our values are Create with Collaboration, Serve with Integrity, Grow with Excellence, and Advance with Innovation. The Gainesville, GA facility is looking for an Operational Buyer to manage the timely availability of parts and machines within agreed service levels, considering optimal costs (Total costs of ownership principle). This role is responsible for managing availability according to realistic planning, taking into account available capacity and customer requirements.

Requirements

Working with people: Shows respect for the views and contributions of other team members, shows empathy, listens to others, builds team spirit and reconciles conflict, adapts to the team and fits in well.
Adhering to principle and values: upholds ethics and values, demonstrates integrity.
Relating and networking: easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff, relates well to people at all levels, builds wide and effective networks of contacts.
Analyzing involves analyzing numerical data and all other sources of information. It breaks them into component parts, patterns, and relationships. Analyzing also probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem. Additionally, it makes rational judgments from the available information and analysis. Ultimately, analyzing demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.
Creating, produces new ideas, approaches and insights, produces a range of solutions to problems, creates innovative products or designs.
Delivering results and meeting customer expectations, focuses on customer needs and satisfaction, sets high standards for quality and quantity, monitors and maintains quality and productivity, works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way.
Adapting and responding to change, tolerates ambiguity, accepts new ideas and change initiatives.
Perform other ad hoc duties and projects assigned by management.
College Diploma.
Experience in Supply Chain processes (Planning, Inventory Control).
Knowledge of ERP, engineering, and reporting systems.
Experience with MS office.
Reading technical drawings (PLM).
Languages: Local language and English.
You must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Experience with and comfort working in a multi-cultural, multi-discipline organization is an advantage.

Responsibilities

Implements processes and tools that focus on early identification and resolution of exceptions / shortages.
Identifies component supply risk and proposes / implements corrective actions to secure component supply (shortage management).
Evaluates component demand against capacities resolving exceptions to ensure component supply.
Manages rejects and returns process according to the correct priorities.
Monitors Supply Chain KPI's (use PDCA method).
Responsible for Master Data management.
Streamlines logistics/warehousing activities to minimize all relevant operational cost and communicates in case of exceptions.
Sets the right balance between short-term and long-term planning.
Balances between deadlines & details, speed & completeness, and focuses on items with greatest impact.
Incorporates product life cycle into component plans to ensure availability and minimize obsolescence (phase in / phase out management).
Upon request analyzes, identifies and proposes actions regarding Inventory strategies and stock levels.
Works together with Supply Chain Engineer on inventory levels and execution of inventory strategies.
Monitors partnership with supplier while holding supplier accountable for supply performance.
Monitors important supplier performance indicators: delivery reliability, supplier lead time and obsolescence.
Identifies, executes supplier improvement programs to increase supply agility and reliability.
Proposes and validates logistics agreements with suppliers.
Participates in continuous improvement projects.
Proposes continuous improvements, considering own workspace, department processes, JBT Marel processes and supplier processes.
Uses available Supply Chain tools / ERP systems and interprets / analyses data to review component plan inputs and constraints.
Enables smart system planning by using / setting up master data (lead times, MRP types, MOQ, etc.).
Uses tools to evaluate and improve supplier performance.