Senior Buyer

Eaton Corporation • Asheville, NC

10d • $86,000 - $126,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Buyer supports Eaton’s supply chain purchasing department through the effective procurement of a wide variety of direct material from domestic and global sources ensuring that quality, delivery, and specification requirements are met at the lowest possible total cost. This individual will take leadership of cost reduction projects, commercial negotiations, and implementation of sourcing strategies. Additionally, this individual will be expected to identify, improve, and implement business processes as well as provide leadership within the department and with the supply base. This position requires the ability to develop a competitive environment within the supply base and to make sourcing decisions based on total cost of ownership considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• One (1) year of experience working in manufacturing operations, or supply chain, or logistics.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• No relocation is offered. Candidates must currently reside within a 50-mile radius of Avery Creek, NC to be considered. Active-Duty Military are exempt from this geographical limitation.
• Self-directed, self-starter with exceptional negotiating skills, excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Thorough knowledge of purchasing and principles including the ability to research, analyze negotiate and close various types of purchase efforts within guidelines of good business and ethical practices.
• Possessing the following leadership characteristics: handling ambiguity; flexibility; integrity; leading change; learning agility; strategic agility; and vision.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree in supply chain from an accredited institution.
• CPIM or CPM certifications.
• Three (3) years’ experience in a supply chain function, including direct buying and supplier management responsibility.
• Broad understanding of supply chain principles and the ability to interpret and communicate complex specifications and instructions.
• Thorough understanding of negotiation techniques and tactics.

Responsibilities

• Initiates quoting activity, evaluates supplier proposals, and negotiates price and delivery based on total cost of ownership and ensuring strategic alignment with corporate and local goals and objectives.
• Lead commercial negotiations with suppliers seeking mutually beneficial long-term relationships.
• Work with design engineering groups across multiple product lines, to ensure successful, on time development and launch of new products, by identifying the optimal sourcing strategies.
• Works with the material planning group to drive supply base to meet delivery and inventory requirements.
• Lead by example in the tasks required to meet departmental requirements. Assist in the training and development of personnel within the department.
• Acts as a conduit between suppliers and Eaton personnel to resolve quality and / or technical issues as they arise.
• Lead supplier management and development activities driving continuous improvement in Eaton’s metrics and Talenthub goals.
• Research new sources of supply and performs tactical Supply Chain assessments of these sources, including the development of supplier selection criteria. Facilitate the implementation of goals and objectives between Corporate commodity management and the facility SCM team.
• Leverage relationships to hold suppliers accountable to perform to Eaton’s expectations on delivery, quality and overall cost.
• Maintains all records and correspondence relative to quotations, purchase orders, contracts, and agreements.
• Proactively resolve supplier accounts payable issues.
• Participate in cross-functional teams chartered with improving supplier performance and executing corrective actions and drive continuous improvement through the supply base with a focus on cost, quality, on-time-performance and inventory DOH.
• Assuring a timely delivery of quality raw materials and components requires the proper choice of vendors and continual communications with vendor of choice.
• Maintaining consistent pricing and cost improvement required the creativity of product review, new vendor search, department interface or redesign and the ability to negotiate needed price.
• Responding to all levels of managerial requests requires flexibility of dealing with new situations and demands while maintaining normal activities.
• Operating within the confines of a receipt budget while balancing the requirements of manufacturing and need to control inventory investment.
• Providing leadership and informing various members of total organization while their individual interest is not in conformance with materials.
• Planning the timely acquisition of quality materials to assure the smooth flow of manufacturing, while maintaining minimum inventory investment and improving costs.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees