Buyer

Buyer

Company: Monogram Aerospace Fasteners

Primary Location: 3423 S Garfield Avenue, Commerce, CA 90040 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function: Purchasing

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Summary/Objective

Responsible for procuring materials and supplies needed for production, ensuring timely and cost-effective purchasing, maintaining vendor relationships, and analyzing market trends to secure the best prices.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform this position:

• Researching, selecting, and purchasing quality products and materials.

• Building relationships with suppliers and negotiating for the best pricing.

• Processing requisitions and updating management on status of orders.

• Updating inventory and ensuring that stock levels are kept at appropriate levels.

• Arranging transport of goods and tracking orders to ensure timely delivery.

• Create all assigned purchase orders.

• Track all orders from the supplier and monitor the progress of critical or longer lead time orders.

• Create internal process to report out to team daily.

• Expedite orders with direction from management.

• Measure On Time Delivery - address negative trends with OTD.

• Conduct quarterly vendor risk assessment meetings with internal team and post findings.

• Research additional sources, validate and approve with engineering and quality and develop a sourcing strategy that ensures a primary and secondary supplier for all outside process services.

• Achieve cost savings/productivity and review open issues weekly.

• Be the purchasing point of contact for all issues with suppliers.

• Coordinate outside processing shipments and receipts with the receiving department daily and notify team of job completion and pick-up availability.

• Responsible for updating purchasing information daily on the War Room board.

• Conduct at a quarterly supplier visit.

• Back up for Senior Buyer.

Competencies:

• Oral and written communication skills

• Detail oriented

• Analytical skills

• Organizational skills

• Leadership skills

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business or equivalent experience preferred.

• Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in purchasing or related field.

• Computer and system skills: proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel) required. ERP software preferred.

Physical Demands:

The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.

Travel:

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected. Travel is approximately 10% of time.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.