Buyer

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Celebrating 100 years in 2024, Plymouth Tube Company is a fifth-generation family-owned, precision metals manufacturer. Our products include tubing, extruded shapes, and cold-drawn shapes spanning specialty carbon, alloy, stainless steel, nickel alloy, and titanium. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois, with seven plants in the U.S. and one in Germany, Plymouth is known for offering industry-leading service levels and unique technical innovations.

We have a great family-based culture guided by these four values: People, Customer Focus, Community & Environment, and Long-Term Orientation. These values serve as pillars to support our mission statement: 'We are committed to providing products and services that meet or exceed our customers' expectations.

Plymouth Tube is looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious team member to join our Supply Chain team. This person must embrace change, be self-motivated, and inspire others inside and outside the department. The individual should be able to communicate directly and openly with all levels in our organization. There will be many opportunities for the successful candidate to engage their innovative and creative problem-solving skills to help move the department to the next level. It is a must that the Site Buyer has a high degree of personal integrity in dealing with customers, superiors, subordinates, and co-workers and will represent Plymouth Tube Company in a professional manner. The successful candidate will live both in the big picture as well as in the details, desire to make an impact, and work well in a team and individually.

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Site Buyer is the first level approver of all Purchase Orders for a determined set of production mills and strategic indirect categories for Plymouth Tube. The Site Buyer receives requisitions from operations, engineering, and safety and ensures the correct part is ordered, the correct vendor is selected, and Plymouth receives the best total cost of the material. The site buyer assists the requisitioner in fully specifying the material requirements for a purchase order. The Site Buyer ensures corporate agreements are followed and if there is no contract set for an item, sources that item from potential vendors. The site buyer follows up on past due item receipts (both with receiving and the vendor if necessary), following up with vendors if there are potential delivery delays. The Site Buyer recommends site and company purchasing strategies based on spend and vendor analysis.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Core Responsibilities

• Adhere to and model all site and corporate Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory requirements.

• You will be the first level approver for POs for requisitions entered by their assigned requisitioners.

• You'll works with requisitioners to obtain the required specifications to properly source required items.

• As the buyer you'll own sourcing for assigned sites and categories. If an item is not under a corporate purchase agreement, the buyer sources that item at the lowest cost that meets end user needs.

• You'll recommend purchasing strategies and opportunities to the Strategic Sourcing Manager.

• You will work with site vendors to insure stocked item inventories are maintained.

• You'll escalate and resolve received material quality issues with vendors.

• You will own the relationship with site vendors. Also meet regularly with site vendors to explore opportunities for further contract/item enhancements.

Key Metric Accountability (Tracks and Owns Status)

• Site spend % under PO

• Site spend under contract

• Vendor non-conformance count

• Pending vendor resolutions

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• Desired: Bachelor's Degree in supply chain management or Business Management plus 1+ year of plant buying experience

-OR-

3+ years experience as a site buyer with proven and documented success in lieu of a degree

Additional Requirements

• ERP System experience a plus

• Ability to work within and experience with MRP and Shop floor Control Systems

• Proficiency with MS Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, advanced Excel)

• Demonstrates proficiency in use of a computer and various programs-including Microsoft Excel.

• Understands how to document goals and deviations from these goals on a regular basis.

• Acts as a liaison between vendors, customers, laborers and other departments within the company.

• Works efficiently under pressure and helps motivate employees to meet demands.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

• Benefits effective 30 days from date of hire.

• Medical, Dental and Vision, HSA, FSA

• 401k Matching, Life Insurance, STD/LTD

• 100% covered tuition reimbursement (including books & reasonable expenses)

• Wellness Program / Lifestyle Rewards / Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Paid Time Off & Holidays

• Career Arching: Plymouth allows for a great depth & breadth of knowledge in which you can wear many hats and be exposed to several opportunities.

COMPETENCIES/DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

Core Competencies

• Care & Commitment: Consistently reliable, follows work instructions, investigates any inconsistencies and looks ahead to next steps. Offers ideas for improvements (safety, operations, process, and quality) and actively participates in improvement processes. Accepts change as part of future state improvement and adapts with positive enthusiasm.

• Team Player: Steps up to help the team even when it's outside of normal duties or comfort zone, looks out for the safety of self and team. Cooperates with others without dominating the group, values team members for their contributions and professional abilities, and always treats people with respect. Communicates ideas respectfully, honestly and clearly, and considers the suggestions and opinions of others

• Customer Focus: Seeks out information on customer requirements, stops a process when an inconsistency is suspected, and reports inconsistencies to the right person. Involves customers and seeks best resource before moving forward with key decisions; follows through on promises made to internal/external customer. Delivers accurate product, services and paperwork to the next operation

• Initiative: Initiate's problem solving to address issues, acts without being told or directed, actively participates in resolution, seeks best alternative even if it challenges the status quo. Does and says the right things for the right reasons even when it's uncomfortable, speaks up immediately when seeing a safety hazard, a process error, or problem to resolve. Acts with sense of urgency: Gives immediate attention to tasks or issues that prevent organization from reaching goals, rethinks priorities and organizes work to achieve goals or get goals back on track.

• Safety: Participates in safety efforts enthusiastically, always with an eye for achieving the very best, approaches auditing with a commitment toward learning and improving equally. Consistently looks for opportunities to improve the safety culture, shows sincere interest in the improvement of safety in the organization above and beyond requirements. Actively drives culture where safety is more important than achieving numbers or reaching goals.

Job Specific Competencies

• Buyer: Follows corporate purchasing agreements when applicable, shepherds spend to agreements for further future leverage of spend. Identifies savings opportunities while leveraging transactional ease. Works with a sense of urgency to meet customer expectations and keep the mills running safely and efficiently.

• Judgement: Uses common sense when discerning priorities, demonstrates sound decision making when approaching decisions with critical impact. Grasp's business cycle and its requirements, is process and detail oriented, absorbs new information quickly. Earns trust of others, does not cut corners ethically, does what is "right" not what is expedient.

• Operations: Demonstrates sound knowledge of the production process from start to finish, proficient in the technical requirements of position (systems and visual), continues to improve skills in this area. Is capable of taking starting specifications for a part and working with the requestor to fully define the requirements for potential vendors.

• Involvement: Works effectively with all levels of organization to help them understand metrics and organizational data, interpreting into a relatable format. Improves costs and/or spending by analyzing, making suggestions in production and non-production categories. Provides leadership for special projects and/or any cost cutting problem solving events, adept at running meetings.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Other details

• Job Function Group 1
• Pay Type Salary

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