Sr Procurement Buyer

Honeywell Aerospace•San Diego, CA

2h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Buyer 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 Senior Buyer, you'll act as a leader in cost savings initiatives, Lean events, and MRP planning improvements and process enhancements. The scope of the role 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. The role 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 act as a Lead for Direct Procurement in support of the Defense Systems business area located in San Diego, CA.

Requirements

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.
Experience with MRP planning improvements and process enhancements.
Compliance to FAR/DFAR requirements.
Ability to successfully learn and manage multiple commodities.
Expert customer service skills.

Responsibilities

Determine material requirements through analytical planning and schedule the ordering thereof; source, negotiate and execute awards for direct, indirect or CAPEX material & equipment, at the best value to the organization and on a timely basis to support production schedule. Successfully learn and manage multiple commodities as assigned.
Monitor the addition of new customer requirements and work to ensure timely release of purchase requisition to provide program support. Evaluate current programs to verify that they are being fully supported by evaluating ERP signals, EML and quality issues.
Flag production impacts and escalate resolution through appropriate support and management personnel; communicate program impact to appropriate departments accurately and reliably using expert customer service skills.
Create purchase requisitions and purchase orders for accuracy and conformance with established policies and procedures. Process and plan Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s) in alignment with our Planning department.
Obtain oral and/or written quotations from Suppliers, document competitive bidding. Perform Price Analysis techniques per FAR/DFAR requirements.
Negotiate and execute critical, complex, high-value awards; manage price increase situations and cost improvement initiatives with the team; drive all elements of the procurement process with Suppliers resulting in the best value for CAES.
Follow up on purchase orders to ensure acknowledgement and on time delivery; document expected delivery dates and expedite as needed. Escalate issues both internally and externally in a timely manner.
Resolve receiving discrepancies, inspection discrepancies, coordinate Return to Vendor (RTV) and reconcile invoice discrepancies.
Interface professionally, in a team-orientated manner with internal clients including Planning, Inventory, Ops/Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality and Finance.
Represent/support the department in daily huddles and GEMBA with material status updates.
Search out alternate Suppliers to establish competition and to help minimize material shortages and stock outages.
Meet with Suppliers seeking to establish relationship with the firm; as needed, review materials presented and cross-functionally align with ENG and QA on a recommendation as to whether the vendor deserves further consideration.
Participate in supplier visits, audits, and performance management conference calls, when necessary, in collaboration with the Commodity Managers and Quality Assurance. Provide feedback to support the Supplier Score Card, to elevate or maintain corporate expectations of supplier’s excellence in delivery. Lead supplier business reviews as needed.
Populate an up-to-date system on lead times (material master) and Suppliers (vendor master) to ensure immediate and accurate access to information in the ERP system.
Participate in safety training and actively comply with safety policies and practices.
Participate in Lean/Six Sigma activities in own work area as well as events for other areas to enhance cross-functional problem solving. Improve and maintain 5S in your area; make suggestions for improvements.
Support and address KPI matrix and report outs.
Perform other related duties as assigned.