Senior Purchasing Analyst

Samsung Electronics•Newberry, SC

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Samsung Electronics Home Appliances America, LLC is seeking a Senior Purchasing Analyst to be responsible for accurate purchasing procurement in global trade conditions. This role involves analyzing lead times of materials and logistics to maintain optimal inventory fulfillment and support production. The analyst will oversee purchase orders for parts, manage weekly procurement volumes, and maintain purchasing KPI reports. A key responsibility includes creating a VBA-based forecasting model for materials, especially critical components, and identifying potential supply chain bottlenecks. The role ensures timely material availability for mass production while minimizing urgent air shipments, analyzes enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to identify cost reduction opportunities, tariff issues, and optimize open POs and lead times. The Senior Purchasing Analyst will also participate in procurement audits, prepare purchasing documentation, validate vendor compliance, and support traceability of procurement records to ensure adherence to company policy and regulatory standards. Additionally, the role involves accurate purchasing logistics forecasting, releasing purchase orders to foreign vendors, communicating forecast and logistics details with vendors, managing daily production requirements, and coordinating with cross-functional departments and HQ to manage obsolete stock for End-of-Life (EOL) models.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Supply Chain Management, Systems Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
One year of experience in performing data analysis using data analysis tools including Microsoft Excel VBA and Power Query.
One year of experience in communicating complex concepts to cross-functional audiences.
One year of experience in project management, including managing, planning, organizing, scheduling and tracking projects from initiation, planning, execution and delivery.
One year of experience managing, coordinating, and aligning stakeholders in cross-functional projects.
One year of experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
One year of experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems including NERP, PLM, GSRM, GSCM, and SQCI.

Responsibilities

Accurate purchasing procurement in global trade conditions by analyzing lead time materials and logistics to maintain inventory fulfillment at optimized level and supply production.
Oversee purchase orders for parts, handling of weekly procurement volume, and manage purchasing KPI reports.
Create VBA-based forecasting model for materials, including critical components.
Oversee the development of new materials and identify potential supply chain bottlenecks.
Ensure timely material availability for mass production while minimizing urgent air shipments.
Analyze enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to uncover opportunities for reducing costs, tariffs issues, open Purchase Order (PO) and lead times.
Participate in internal and external procurement audits.
Prepare purchasing documentation, validate vendor compliance, and support traceability of procurement records to ensure alignment with company policy and regulatory standards.
Accurate purchasing logistics forecasting and releasing purchase orders to foreign vendors.
Communicating with vendors regarding forecast and logistics details.
Manage and update daily requirements for production to release forecasts to vendors and confirm orders through ERP system.
Coordinate with cross-functional departments and HQ to Manage End-of-Life (EOL) models’ obsolete stock.