Regional Buyer

Lithia Motors • Lithia Springs, GA

15d • $70,000 - $85,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Trulite is NOW HIRING! We are looking for a Regional Buyer to support our East Region. The Buyer is responsible for purchasing specific direct and indirect materials, effectively managing material inventory and ensuring that supply commitments and business needs are met. This procurement professional supports plant operations to clarify needs, evaluate and/or determine suppliers, generate and place orders and manage ongoing supplier interactions on behalf of branch and regional operations. As a key member of the procurement team, the incumbent will execute on the group's supply chain objectives. Who You Are: A Supply Chain/Logistics professional with three (3) years of related experience in business, purchasing, and operations. You haven't met an ERP system you can't tame as of yet!

Requirements

• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the organization's goals and objectives
• Prior purchasing experience in manufacturing or glass industry. Glass industry highly preferred.
• Excellent ability to partner across the organization; both within the Operation and the Procurement teams as well as cross functionally
• Strong prior purchasing and inventory management experience
• Strong personal and business ethics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to work with suppliers
• Ability to perform multiple tasks effectively with a focus on timeliness and responsiveness
• Ability to drive change and sell new concepts and approaches through persistence, self-motivation, energy, tenacity, follow-through, and commitment

Responsibilities

• Work with plant operations and within the ERP to effectively purchase and arrange delivery of specific direct materials.
• Work with plant operations to clarify specifications, establish source alternatives, increase standardization and otherwise increase value related to purchases.
• Work with the procurement team to set reorder points, safety stock and economic order quantities of specific direct materials.
• Ensure that purchasing decisions and strategies are aligned with the group's strategic supply chain objectives.
• Work with the regional sales and operations team to optimize the inventory strategy; resulting in increased customer service and/or reducing working capital.
• Monitor and research order history of similar products purchased to evaluate and track differences in costs, delivery, quality and performance
• Work with suppliers, plant operations and the supply chain group to improve the quality and/or performance of products and services, contract management practices, track market conditions, pricing trends, and opportunities to maximize purchasing value.
• Support the vendor data management/vendor master maintenance processes through adherence to established payment terms and identifying the need for new or updated data information.

Benefits

• Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. We give our employees immediate access to health, dental, vision and life insurance benefits, as well as provide short/long-term disability coverage to protect you financially if non-occupational injury occurs.
• We are pleased to offer a comprehensive wellness initiative that includes access to a progressive financial training program.
• Stay with us for a year and your 401k employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account. We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses and if unused continues to grow until needed. The employer match for your HAS, if you choose to participate, is also vested immediately at 100% improving your financial health.
• Trulite bears most of the cost of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical well-being but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you why Trulite values you as an employee and how we will help you achieve financial independence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed