IL
Buyer
ICONMA, LLC
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
1 week ago
$29.21 – $34.21 / hour
- Lean
- Kanban
- MS Office
- ERP
- SAP
- Agile
1 week ago
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Responsibilities:
- Manages procurement of direct materials to support business requirements: including purchase order management, negotiating costs, purchase order management, and inventory management.
- Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.
- Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
- Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
- Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability, alignment of risk, and cost goals with vision for the business.
- Owns performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, providing information to strategic purchasing for supplier business reviews.
- Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban, consignment, and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize onhand inventory.
- Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier ontime delivery, quality, inventory turns, problem shelf, expedited inbound freight, vendor scrap, E&O reduction).
- Leverages problem solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
- Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Coordinate with strategic purchasing price changes due to cost reduction initiatives, volume pricing or requested by supplier.
- Supports assigned commodity team by participating in identified risk mitigation and cost reduction opportunities and supporting other commodity projects as assigned.
Requirements:
- BS degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile.
- Working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling, and forecasting.
- Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
- Ability to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- English 90%
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Buyer · ICONMA, LLC