Procurement Buyer II
About The Position
The Buyer II position involves collaborating across multiple departments, planning, scheduling and monitoring the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases. As a Buyer II, you'll act as a leader in cost savings initiatives, Lean events, and MRP planning improvements and process enhancements. Scope includes obtaining materials using engineering and production schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels (“just-in-time purchases, use of economic order quantities), maintaining accurate systemic planning parameters, resolving discrepancies, ensuring material standards are met and non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized, gathering quotations, examining bids and making awards, evaluating Supplier reliability, developing new supply sources where competition doesn’t currently exist, and compliance to FAR/DFAR requirements. Requires an ability to build positive relationships with key Suppliers while leveraging these relationships to improve Supplier quality, costs, service, and preserve Department of Defense (DOD) certification. This position will support Direct Procurement in support our Defense Systems business area located in San Diego, CA.
Requirements
- Experience in procurement or a related field
- Ability to build positive relationships with key Suppliers
- Ability to leverage relationships to improve Supplier quality, costs, and service
- Ability to preserve Department of Defense (DOD) certification
Responsibilities
- Collaborating across multiple departments
- Planning, scheduling and monitoring the movement of materials through the production cycle
- Determining required materials purchases
- Acting as a leader in cost savings initiatives, Lean events, and MRP planning improvements and process enhancements
- Obtaining materials using engineering and production schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels
- Maintaining accurate systemic planning parameters
- Resolving discrepancies
- Ensuring material standards are met and non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized
- Gathering quotations, examining bids and making awards
- Evaluating Supplier reliability
- Developing new supply sources where competition doesn’t currently exist
- Ensuring compliance to FAR/DFAR requirements
- Building positive relationships with key Suppliers
- Leveraging relationships to improve Supplier quality, costs, and service
- Preserving Department of Defense (DOD) certification
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
