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Doherty Staffing Solutions
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Buyer
2024-12-02
2025-01-11
Job Category: Supply Chain
Job ID: 1B2541611120
Pay Rate: $60000-80000 / year
Jobs Office: Career Solutions
Job Description
Looking for the next journey in your career? Doherty has partnered with a family-owned and operated business headquartered in Bloomington, MN to hire a Buyer. Stable company with 70 years in business, we invite you to be part of their journey.
You Get:
You Get:
- Excellent schedule, Monday through Thursday
- Competitive pay based on experience
- All the traditional benefits
- Purchase existing parts from both domestic and international suppliers based on demands in ERP system
- Request pricing from suppliers and update internal systems with up-to-date information
- Negotiate pricing, terms, and schedules to obtain the most optimal advantage for the company
- Check on materials and expedites or de-expedites following demand
- Negotiate schedule changes with suppliers as required to support demand changes
- Communicate schedule adjustments to reflect the availability of parts
- Plan purchases to utilize inventory best and minimize inventory investment considering physical space requirements, shelf-life, total landed value, etc.
- Support new product development with the procurement activities
- Evaluate new suppliers, primarily for alternative sources of existing product
- Perform supplier visits, primarily local, as requested and provide written summaries to management
- Record and maintain documentation from transactions for supplier evaluation and problem resolution
- Periodically update and submit open order reports and forecasts to assigned suppliers
- Record order acknowledgments in purchase orders and attach records
- Track incoming orders as needed using the freight forwarder software tool
- Update supplier scorecards monthly and provide suppliers with scorecards quarterly
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, or similar field
- 2+ years of experience in domestic and international purchasing in an ERP/MRP environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for this role
- Dedicated to continual improvement in job performance, ERP utilization, and education
- Ability to perform mathematical functions to calculate discounts, interest, proportions, and percentages
- Exceed in working in a team-based role working cross-departmentally to achieve company-focused results
- Must be highly self-motivated, work with minimal supervision, and be able to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
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