Buyer I

 Seeking a contract Buyer for the Supply Chain department. This is a full-time contract position. 

This individual will be part of the procurement team. Commodities may include: electrical components, machining, connectors, sub assemblies, capital expenditures, and fasteners totaling $5M in annual spend.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Develop & foster true business partnership with suppliers.
* Develop and execute plans to exceed key supplier goals (OTD, Cost Out, DPPM, Best Cost Country [BCC]).
* Lead resourcing of $5M annual spend to optimize material cost out, and supplier performance, by leveraging BCC, and other domestic preferred suppliers.
* Analyze specifications to recommend sourcing in make/buy decisions & cost-price considerations
* Support supplier and plant quality relationships to ensure quality corrective actions are submitted in a timely fashion.
* Support Supplier Consolidations in alignment with company's preferred suppliers.
* Partner with Shared Services Team to ensure continuity to material flow in support of customer OTD and inventory mitigation, by acting to RFQ triggers and action (expedite, de-expedite, cancel) messages in real time.
* Continued expansion of consignment initiatives and support of supplier visualization portal that conveys real time materials requirements to supply base.
* Partner with commodity managers and regional sourcing managers to drive BCC transition plan, while mitigating disruption risk from existing footprint.
* Also support several supplier transitions at the site.

Initial Duration: 6 months with potential for extension.